About Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism". When Hodler submitted the painting to the Beaux-Arts exhibition in Geneva in February 1891, the entwined nude figures created a scandal; the mayor deemed the work obscene, and it was withdrawn from the show. Hodler first made his conception of "parallelism" public in his 1897 lecture manuscript La Mission de l'artiste. In 1884, Hodler met Augustine Dupin (1852–1909), who became his companion and model for the next several years.
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