Word: hodler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DURING ITS PREVIOUS stops at the University Museum at Berkeley and the Guggenheim in New York, the exhibition of works by Ferdinand Hodler now at the Busch-Reisinger has attracted as much critical attention as any show of the past year. Much of the publicity seems to have been the product of surprise: few in this country had ever heard of Hodler, much less assigned him the same prominence in which he is held by European critics, who see him at the forefront of early modernism...
...show contains a wide sampling of Hodler's work ranging in date from the early 1870s to the artist's death in 1918. Most astonishing -- and somewhat disconcerting -- is the bizarre variety of styles. The exhibition leaves the impression of an artist of superb talents who because he never found a consistent style has been immensely difficult to appreciate. The early influences are the ones expected for the time: Corot and Manet in particular. The diversity is present right away in Hodler's work, and so is the excellence. The Angry One, a self-portrait of 1881, demonstrates a fully...
...collection of contemporary Chinese landscape paintings by C.C. Wang and a number of earlier works from Wang's own collection. Meanwhile, the Busch-Reisinger plans to inaugerate a show of drawings by the Danish artist Jan Groth today; the next major show there will be works of Ferdinand Hodler, a now "re-appreciated" German painter of the nineteenth century. That show moves here from New York at the beginning...
...Winter Olympics, which International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage threatened to cancel because of the brandishing of brand names, the FIS ruled that skiers could obtain payments for endorsements-so long as the money was approved by and dispensed through their national associations. Said FIS President Marc Hodler: "Our decision is evolutionary, not revolutionary. We have accepted the fact that ski racers are now full-time sportsmen who simply have no time left over for earning extra money...
Olympic Committee to thresh out their problems. It promises to be a fight to the finish, for according to FIS President Hodler, the 82-year-old Brundage plans to make the question of professionalism "a personal battle and his last battle...