This study of a figure showing a classical gesture of awakening from sleep was made for a large mural composition. In it, a group of five nude female figures create an image of the renewal of life at the break of each day. Like Minne, Hodler was influenced by the Symbolist movement, which reacted against the increasing secularism and realism of the late nineteenth century.
Details
| Artist | Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss, 1853-1918 |
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| Date | between 1898 and 1899 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | Overall: 41 7/8 × 39 3/8 inches (106.4 × 100 cm) Framed: 49 5/16 × 46 3/4 × 2 1/16 inches (125.3 × 118.7 × 5.2 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund |
| Accession Number | 1988.65 |
| Department | European Painting |
| On View | Modern N200, Level 2 (see map) |
Provenance
1921, (Gallery Neupert, Zürich, Switzerland);
(Gallery Thannhauser, Munich, Germany);
1988, (Bruno Meissner, Zürich, Switzerland);
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
(Gallery Thannhauser, Munich, Germany);
1988, (Bruno Meissner, Zürich, Switzerland);
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung. Exh. cat. Bern, 1921, p. 28, no. 305. [lent by Gallery Neupert, Zürich.]
Müller, W.Y. Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers Reife und Spätwerk 1895-1918. Zürich, 1941, vol. 2, p. 480, no. 51. [as ca. 1900.]
Bulletin of the DIA 65, nos. 2/3 (1989): p. 12 (fig. 8).
Müller, W.Y. Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers Reife und Spätwerk 1895-1918. Zürich, 1941, vol. 2, p. 480, no. 51. [as ca. 1900.]
Bulletin of the DIA 65, nos. 2/3 (1989): p. 12 (fig. 8).
