Arnold Böcklin was a famous Swiss painter associated with the Symbolist art movement. He is best known for his works like the Isle of the Dead painting which he did five different versions of. Famous Arnold Böcklin artworks include “Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel)“, “The Island of Life (Die Lebensinsel)”, “Moonlit Landscape”, “Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle”, “Mourning under the Cross”, “The Elysian Fields”, “Odysseus and Polyphemus”, “The Sanctuary of Hercules”, “Roger Freeing Angelica” and “Villa by the Sea”.
Mini biography: Born Arnold Böcklin on the 16th of October, 1827 in Basel, Switzerland. His mother was Ursula Lippe and his father Christian Frederick Böcklin was a silk trader. Bocklin married Angela Rosa Lorenza Pascucci in 1853 and they had fourteen children together with five dying in childhood. The artist died on the 16th of January, 1901 in Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany, Italy at the age of 73. Böcklin is buried at the Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori, Florence, Italy.
List of Famous Arnold Böcklin Art Quotes
Nothing in art is created without effort, and the painter’s ideas don’t come to him on wings while he dreams, either. The one may be more talented than the other, of course; but without untiring diligence, single-mindedness and a combative spirit, there can’t be any good result. All this talk about ‘inspiration’ is nonsense. Arnold Böcklin
A dream picture: it must produce such a stillness that one would be awed by a knock on the door. (talking about his Isle of the Dead painting) Arnold Böcklin
Why were the Greeks Greeks? Because they created what they saw, as seemed right to them. (The ancients did not want to make antiquity, as far as I know – only we want to do that) The fresh water of life is what we want, and that is ever flowing for us, as it was for the Greeks. We will only be Greek when we grasp it in our own way. Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Bocklin Self Portrait Painting
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- Isle of the Dead Painting – See the different versions of the Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) painting by Arnold Böcklin and other artworks by famous artists who were inspired by the masterpiece.
Related or similar popular artists include: Andrew Wyeth, Odd Nerdrum, Alberto Giacometti, and other Famous Swiss Artists.
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