Ferdinand Hodler founded a new institute for factory promotion
The Jura Brüschweiler Archive has founded a new reference center to promote the life and work of the painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918). The archive continues its previous task.
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- The aim of the new Ferdinand Hodler Institute is to preserve, research and promote the life and work of Ferdinand Hodler, wrote the institute management in a message on Monday.
The Jura Brüschweiler archive has taken care of this up to now, with more than 85,000 objects: sketches, photos, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, letters and personal items by the Swiss painter Hodler.
But now, with the establishment of the new institute, this previous task has been expanded. A reference center for Ferdinand Hodler is to be created. The communication says that all knowledge about the painter and his time should be bundled.
In cooperation with other cultural actors, the institute will make Hodler’s work widely accessible, thanks to the new technologies also digitally. The previous exhibitions in Berlin and La Chaux-de-Fonds are to be followed by others in Switzerland and abroad. And: several publications are planned for the coming months.
The research team is working on the publication of all of Hodler’s correspondence. The project was started in 2016, is based on 20 years of research by the Jura Brüschweiler archive and comprises a corpus of more than 2,300 letters. A five-volume publication is planned for March 2023, on the 170th birthday of the painter Hodler, who was born in Bern and died in Geneva.
The Ferdinand Hodler Institute employs nine people and is headed by Niklaus Manuel Güdel, director of the Jura Brüschweiler archive. The holdings of the archive were compiled by the Swiss art historian Jura Brüschweiler, who died in 2013 and who is the most important expert on the painter Ferdinand Hodler. The archive is based in Geneva and Delémont.
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