'A Symbolist Vision - Exposition', Museum of Fine Arts, Until 14 December

The last time a similar exhibition of Hodlers’s works was held was in Switzerland in 1983. Such a complete display of works by a foreign artist has, until now, never been held in Hungary.

It was the Secession exhibition of 1904 in Vienna that brought recognition for Hodler. The great success of this exhibition identified Hodler alongside Gustav Klimt as one of the early defining figures of European Jugendstil. Throughout the exhibition visitor can follow the significant changes in the genres of his life’s work, the various working phases of the selected picture themes, and the process of the Hodler painting technique.

The exhibition presents 120 paintings, including some that have been restored specifically for this occasion, and almost 40 graphic pieces. These come from both the most important Swiss museums (Kunstmuseum Basel; Kunsthaus Zürich; Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genf; Kunstmuseum Solothurn; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur; Museum Allerheiligen, Schaffhasuen; Museum Coninx Zürich; Swiss State Collection, Bern) and also from private collections (Sammlung Dr. Christoph Blocher, Sammlung Thomas Schmidheiny, Stiftung Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur). 

The works from Switzerland are supplemented by pieces on loan from German museums (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt; Museum Folkwang, Essen)."

Source: budapestinfo.hu