Room 1

Highly Promising.

Artistic Beginnings

© Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of Ch. Edm. von Steiger-Pinson

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Ferdinand Hodler, Self-Portrait (The Angry Man), 1881

Oil on canvas, 73 × 53 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern

© Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of Walter and Hedwig Scherz-Kernen, Muri

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Ferdinand Hodler, Chalet with Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau, 1872

Oil on cardboard, 49.5 × 64.7 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern

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© Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of Walter and Hedwig Scherz-Kernen, Muri

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Ferdinand Hodler, Schadau Castle with Church of Scherzligen and Blümlisalp, ca. 1871

Oil on cardboard, 49 × 64.6 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern

© Kunstmuseum Bern, Depositum of the Swiss Federation, Bundesamt für Kultur, Gottfried Keller-Stiftung

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Ferdinand Hodler, Dialogue with Nature, 1884

Oil on canvas, 237 × 162 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern

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