Study for Day

between 1898 and 1899

Ferdinand Hodler Swiss, 1853-1918

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

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.

Title Study for Day

Artwork Date between 1898 and 1899

Artist Ferdinand Hodler

Life Dates 1853-1918

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Swiss

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 41 7/8 × 39 3/8 inches (106.4 × 100 cm) Framed: 49 3/8 × 46 13/16 × 1 1/2 inches (125.4 × 118.9 × 3.8 cm) 52 lbs (framed and glazed) SS 4/27/23

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1988.65

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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)

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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).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Ferdinand Hodler, Study for Day, between 1898 and 1899, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1988.65.