Arnold Böcklin

(1827–1901) schweizisk målare och bildhuggare

Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland, 1827–1901) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a sculptor, a draughtsman, and a designer. By year of birth, Arnold Böcklin belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Arnold Böcklin was born in Basel and died in Fiesole. Arnold Böcklin trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Arnold Böcklin worked in Basel, Weimar, Florence, and Düsseldorf. Wikidata associates Arnold Böcklin with Symbolism. Arnold Böcklin was awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. The students included Harry Schultz, Albert Welti, and Otto Kameke.

The best-known works include ‘Faun whistling to a Blackbird’, ‘Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle’, and ‘Isle of the Dead’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting, landscape painting, and portrait. The catalogue has 181 works by Arnold Böcklin with free images. The dated works span the years 1845–1900. Works by Arnold Böcklin are held by several collections, among them Kunstmuseum Basel, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Nationalgalerie, and Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Wikidata links 8 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Ludwig Angerer, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, Emil Hünten, Siegwald Dahl, and William Holman Hunt.

• Realism
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