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Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin

Arnold Böcklin

Swiss, 1827-1901
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Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.
He was born in Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin (b. 1802), was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade. His mother, Ursula Lippe, was a native of the same city. Arnold studied at the Düsseldorf academy under Schirmer, and became a friend of Anselm Feuerbach. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Schirmer, who recognized in him a student of exceptional promise, sent him to Antwerp and Brussels, where he copied the works of Flemish and Dutch masters. Böcklin then went to Paris, worked at the Louvre, and painted several landscapes.

After serving his time in the army, Böcklin set out for Rome in March 1850. The many sights of Rome were a fresh stimulus to his mind. These new influences brought allegorical and mythological figures into his compositions. In 1856 he returned to Munich, and remained there for four years.

Influenced by Romanticism, Böcklin's symbolist use of imagery derived from mythology and legend often overlapped with the aesthetic of the Pre-Raphaelites. Many of his paintings are imaginative interpretations of the classical world, or portray mythological subjects in settings involving classical architecture, often allegorically exploring death and mortality in the context of a strange, fantasy world.

Böcklin is best known for his five versions (painted 1880 to 1886) of the Isle of the Dead, which partly evokes the English Cemetery, Florence, which was close to his studio and where his baby daughter Maria had been buried. An early version of the painting was commissioned by a Madame Berna, a widow who wanted a painting with a dreamlike atmosphere.

Clement Greenberg wrote in 1947 that Böcklin's work "is one of the most consummate expressions of all that is now disliked about the latter half of the nineteenth century."

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Fir Trees

Fir Trees (1849)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Bildnis Margaretha Antoinette Mähly-Schermar

Bildnis Margaretha Antoinette Mähly-Schermar (1865)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Island of the Dead

Island of the Dead (1880)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
Ruin by the Sea

Ruin by the Sea (1881)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
The Sacred Grove

The Sacred Grove (1882)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Summer Day

Summer Day

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1868)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Reed

Reed (1845)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Mountain Landscape with Waterfall

Mountain Landscape with Waterfall (1849)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Mountain Landscape with Chamois

Mountain Landscape with Chamois (1849)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Landscape near Palestrina

Landscape near Palestrina (1853)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Landscape

Landscape

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Destroyed House near Kehl

Destroyed House near Kehl (1870)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Ancient Roman Tavern

Ancient Roman Tavern (1866)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Villa by the Sea

Villa by the Sea (1871 – 1874)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Vita somnium breve (Life a Short Dream)

Vita somnium breve (Life a Short Dream) (1888)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (1862)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Self-Portrait in the Studio

Self-Portrait in the Studio (1893)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Portrait of Sibylla Müller-Kleyling

Portrait of Sibylla Müller-Kleyling (1867)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Portrait of Professor Fritz Burckhardt-Brenner

Portrait of Professor Fritz Burckhardt-Brenner (1868)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Portrait of Prof. Fritz Burckhardt-Brenner

Portrait of Prof. Fritz Burckhardt-Brenner (1867-70)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
In The Sea

In The Sea (1883)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
Faun and Nymph in the Woods

Faun and Nymph in the Woods (ca. 1859)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
Der Maler Franz von Lenbach

Der Maler Franz von Lenbach (1862)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Spring Day (The Three Life Ages)

Spring Day (The Three Life Ages) (1883)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Pan in the Reed

Pan in the Reed (1856)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Landscape
Two fishing Pans

Two fishing Pans (1874)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
Paolo and Francesca

Paolo and Francesca (1893)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
Am Quell (At the Source)

Am Quell (At the Source) (1879)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Figurative
Armut und Sorge

Armut und Sorge (1890)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)
Mythology
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