FERDINAND HODLER: SELF-PORTRAITS

http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/ferdinand-hodler/works 

Ferdinand Hodler embraced self-portraiture with a particular intensity in his final years. In these late self-portraits, nothing remains to distract from the artist’s face: Hodler has arrived at a masterly fusion of realism and introspection. The painter models his own furrowed and often serious visage in the manner of an Alpine landscape, employing an increasingly visible brush stroke.