Arnold Böcklin

Arnold Böcklin (October 16th 1827 with Basle - January 16th 1901 with San Domenico in Italy) was a Artiste German Suisse , painter, draftsman, graphic designer and sculptor.

Biography

Of 1845 with 1847, it studies with the Academy of the Art schools of Düsseldorf. He undertakes then a trip study in Suisse, Holland and France. He works of 1850 with 1857 with Rome. Of 1860 with 1862, it teaches as professor with the Academy of the Art schools of Weimar.

Work

Its most famous fabric is the Peinture the Island of the dead . Let us announce also its playing self-portrait with the Death of the violin (1872). Beside Ferdinand Hodler, of max Klinger and Lovis Corinth, it is one of the principal representatives of the German Symbolism which marked a rupture with academic painting and the naturalism of second half of the 19th century. Surrealist like Giorgio de Chirico, El Salvador Dalí and max Ernst saw in him one their predecessors and greeted it like a “brilliant and ironic artist”.

One will find below a list of other known tables of Arnold Böcklin:

the Fall and death, Munich, Schack Gallery.
the War , 1896, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Gemäldegalerie.
Cléopâtre , 1872, oil on fabric, 100,5 X 142 cm, Basle, Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum.
Self-portrait with the death which plays of the violin , 1872, oil on fabric, 75 X 61 cm Berlin, Nationalgalerie.
Ruin at the edge of the sea , 1880, oil on fabric, 100,5 X 142 cm, Foundation Gottfried Keller, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (Swiss).
the Silence of the Forest , 1885, oil on fabric, 73 X 59 cm, National museum of Poznan (Poland).

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