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The image shows a standing woman in a long, flowing garment. She has long, dark hair and is standing in a green meadow interspersed with various plants. Her hands are clasped on her chest, and she is looking slightly to the side. The surroundings include gentle hills and a cloudy sky.

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Emotion
Date1900

Artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853 Bern – 1918 Genf)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
115 × 70,5 cm
SignatureSign. rechts unten: F. Hodler.
Inventory number1942
Location Upper Belvedere
Barefoot, wearing a pale blue dress, a young woman stands gracefully in the middle of a landscape. She has raised her hands to her chest like a dancer while averting her face. The Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler depicted his wife Berthe in this work. In an earlier presentation it was titled „Woman in a Flowery Meadow“. The later title „Emotion“ transformed the figure into the allegorical embodiment of a feeling. Hodler was an important exponent of Jugendstil and was also a member of the Vienna Secession. Many of his works — including this one — were shown at the 19th Secession exhibition in 1904. There it was acquired by the collector Carl Reininghaus, who sold the painting to what is now the Belvedere in 1918.

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Exhibitions

1903/04 Secession, Wien
1918 Ankauf Carl Reininghaus, Wien

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