Arnold Böcklin 856739 222477798 2008-06-29T15:34:42Z Sandstein 359256 infobox, removed content on font, SIKART link {{Infobox Artist | bgcolour = #6495ED | name = Arnold Böcklin | image = Arnoldboecklin.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Self-portrait<br><small>Oil on canvas (1872)</small> | birthname = Arnold Böcklin | birthdate = 16 October 1827 | location = [[Basel]] | deathdate = 16 January 1901 | deathplace = [[San Domenico]] | nationality = [[Switzerland|Swiss]] | field = [[Painting]] | training = | movement = [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]] | works = [[Isle of the Dead (painting)|Isle of the Dead]] | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = [[Sergey Rachmaninov]], [[Max Reger]], [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], [[Stefan George]], [[Max Klinger]], [[Edvard Munch]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Max Ernst]], [[Salvador Dalí]] | awards = }} '''Arnold Böcklin''' ([[16 October]] [[1827]] &ndash; [[16 January]] [[1901]]) was a [[symbolist]] [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[painter]]. ==Life and art== 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 [[Bâle]], in 1871 in [[Munich]], in 1885 in [[Hottingen (Zürich)|Hottingen]] (Switzerland) and at the end of his life in [[Fiesole]] near Florence. [[Image:Arnold Böcklin 006.jpg|thumb|left|[[Isle of the Dead (painting)|''Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel)'']]]] Influenced by [[Romanticism]] his painting is [[symbolist]] within the [[Art Nouveau]] style. 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 (painting)|''Isle of the Dead'']], which partly evokes the [[English Cemetery, Florence]], close to his studio and where his baby daughter Maria had been buried. ==Legacy== Böcklin exercised an influence on [[Surrealism|Surrealist]] painters like [[Max Ernst]] and [[Salvador Dalí]], and on [[Giorgio de Chirico]]. [[Otto Weisert]] designed an [[Art Nouveau]] typeface in 1904 and named it “[[Arnold Böcklin (typeface)|Arnold Böcklin]]” in his honor. Böcklin's paintings, especially ''The Isle of the Dead'', inspired several late-Romantic composers. [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] and [[Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen]] both composed symphonic poems after it, and in 1913 [[Max Reger]] composed a set of ''Four Tone Poems after Böcklin'' of which the third movement is ''The Isle of the Dead'' (The others are ''The Hermit playing the Violin'', ''At play in the waves'' and ''Bacchanal''). Rachmaninoff was also inspired by Böcklin’s painting ''The Return'' when writing his [[Preludes, Op. 32 (Rachmaninoff)|Prelude in B Minor]], Op. 32, No. 10. <ref> [http://inkpot.com/classical/rachpfc2moi_app.html Jonathan Yungkans: Liner notes to the complete Benno Moiseiwitsch Rachmaninoff recordings 1937-43] </ref> <ref>[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/55239-B.pdf Ates Orga: Liner notes to Demidenko plays Rachmaninov]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commonscat|Arnold Böcklin}} * {{SIKART|4022825}} * {{gutenberg author| id=Böcklin+Arnold | name=Arnold Böcklin}} * [http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/bocklin1.html Bocklin in "History of Art"] * [http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/bocklin/index.html Böcklin biography and images at CGFA] * [http://www.elp.it/bygothic/immagini/arte/bocklin/index.html A gallery of art from Arnold Böcklin] * [http://www.geocities.com/tommyzax/BocklinGallery.html 70 different engravings by Arnold Böcklin on display with translations] *[http://www.toteninsel.net/ Toteninsel.net: an encyclopedia in progress dedicated to A.Bocklin's Isle of the Dead: copies, parodies, inspirations...] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bocklin, Arnold}} [[Category:1827 births]] [[Category:1901 deaths]] [[Category:People from Basel (city)]] [[Category:Symbolist painters]] [[Category:Swiss painters]] [[als:Arnold Böcklin]] [[bg:Арнолд Бьоклин]] [[cs:Arnold Böcklin]] [[de:Arnold Böcklin]] [[es:Arnold Böcklin]] [[fr:Arnold Böcklin]] [[gl:Arnold Böcklin]] [[it:Arnold Böcklin]] [[la:Arnoldus Boecklin]] [[lv:Arnolds Bēklins]] [[hu:Arnold Böcklin]] [[nl:Arnold Böcklin]] [[ja:アルノルト・ベックリン]] [[no:Arnold Böcklin]] [[pl:Arnold Böcklin]] [[ru:Бёклин, Арнольд]] [[fi:Arnold Böcklin]] [[sv:Arnold Böcklin]] [[tr:Arnold Böcklin]] [[uk:Беклін Арнольд]] [[zh:阿诺德·勃克林]]