1900, Ferdinand Hodler, Emotion -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: 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.
1900, Ferdinand Hodler, Emotion -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: 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.