Exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts - Renaissance in Pharaonic Egypt
8 August 2008 – 9 November 2008
The culture of Pharaonic Egypt was characterised throughout by a reverence for the past living on in myths and history, the preservation of the glorious achievements of the past, as well as the conscious and selective use of these achievements. A kind of “renaissance” attitude is thus deeply rooted in the 3,000-year-long history of ancient Egypt.
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Ferdinand HodlerMuseum of Fine Arts - A Symbolist Vision
9 September 2008 – 14 December 2008
Ferdinand Hodler was born in 1853 in Berne and settled in Geneva in 1872, where he lived for the rest of his life. His works, such as Alpine landscapes of mountains and lakes, portraits and historical pictures made on commission, established him as one of the key figures of his country’s art, who found some loyal supporters early on in his career as a painter. To this day the predominant part of his extensive oeuvre is preserved in prominent museums and important private collections in Switzerland. In the early part of his career Hodler followed the realism of his teacher in Geneva, Barthélemy Menn, but his landscapes and genre scenes soon revealed his striving to spiritualise an ideal or an object instead of using a “pleasant” manner of depiction. His friends in Geneva, among them the literati associated with the symbolists of Paris, contributed to the strengthening of this tendency in his art and to the actual evolution of his large figurative, monumental compositions.
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