Luis this a wonderful painting.

It is light and bright and reminds me of france.

The colours again are so well choisen.

You have picked a very good painting here

Roger

This man fascinates me too.

(There is a particularly beautiful Apple tree painting but I can't find a non-copyright picture)

Here are some of his differing styles.

His Art Nouveau paintings are wonderful and there is a feel of that in his views but look at the slightly uncomfortable early self-portrait here. Such depth of feeling.

Here is another mountai/lake picture (just look at the water running into the shallows)

Landscape with Thun Lake

The Watchmaking Workshop in Madrid, 1879

This is just wonderful in it's detail and execution

Storm, 1886

Need I say more

Early self-portrait

So restrained in the palette but has that depth of understanding

Look at the selection of his paintings on this website. Stunning

http://www.artistsandart.org/2010/05/ferdinand-hodler-1853-1918-swiss-art.html

Because we have been looking at mountain views in one form I thought that I would make a separate forum for mountain pictorial painting.

What better than to start with Luis' homeland.

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