The collection of works of the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler is one of the Gallery’s greatest peculiarities.

This artist – whose opus is characterised by the Secession-like linearity and rhythm, as well as the transience and constant changes that are ideologically close to the meaning of the impressionism; with the Césannesque solidity of landscape, as well as monumentalism that is typical of the Historicism art works – has achieved a full affirmation while he was still alive.

Today, he is one of the most important representatives of international Style 1900.

The collection held by the National Gallery of BiH contains over a hundred authentic works by Hodler, mainly drawings, as well as several oil paintings, prints and photo-engravings.