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Arnold Böcklin
Artist's Name: Arnold Böcklin
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1827
Nationality: CH
City: Fiesole

Arnold Böcklin - Profile

He studied at Düsseldorf where he became a friend of Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach. Originally a landscape painter, his travels through Brussels, Zurich, Geneva and Rome, exposed him to classical and Renaissance art, and the Mediterranean landscape. These new influences brought allegorical and mythological figures into his compositions. In 1866 he resided at Basel, in 1871 in Munich, in 1885 in Hottingen (Switzerland) and at the end of his life in Fiesole near Florence. Influenced by Romanticism his painting is symbolist with mythological subjects often overlapping with the Pre-Raphaelites. His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) creating a strange, fantasy world. Böcklin is best known for his five versions of Isle of the Dead, which partly evokes the English Cemetery, Florence, 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 dream-like atmosphere. Clement Greenberg wrote in 1947 that Böcklin's work "is one of the most consummate expressions of all that was now disliked about the latter half of the nineteenth century." (Excerpt Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Arnold Böcklin

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Weltklasse: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819-1918 Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf DE 24.09.2011
Sehnsucht Süden: Von Arnold Böcklin bis Roman Signer Kunstmuseum St. Gallen St. Gallen CH 05.02.2011
… Giacometti, Hodler, Klee … Swiss Modern Masters The National Museum of Art, Architecture Oslo NO 30.09.2011
Dreams of nature. Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam NL 24.02.2012
Schönheit und Geheimnis. Der deutsche Symbolismus 1870 - 1920 Kunsthalle Bielefeld Bielefeld DE 08.01.2012
150 Meisterwerke Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München DE 17.09.2010
In den Alpen Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich CH 06.10.2006
From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles US 05.10.2006
Il Bello e le Bestie. Metamorfosi, artifici e ibridi, dal mito all'immaginario s MART - Museo Trento e Rovereto Rovereto IT 11.12.2004
Das Museum Bern zu Gast in München Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München DE 17.09.2010

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Collections representing
Arnold Böcklin

Das Städel
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - HLMD
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel - Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Museum Georg Schäfer
Museum Kunst Palast
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Neue Pinakothek
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden SKD
Von der Heydt Museum
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum