/internal/media/dispatcher/4761/fullEmotion1900[Ferdinand Hodler]Ferdinand HodlerOil on canvas 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.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/978/rdf