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Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel) is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Prints were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century— Vladimir Nabokov observed in his 1936 novel Despair that they could be "found in every Berlin home".
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Isle of the Dead (Russian: Остров мёртвых), Op. 29, is a...
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Isle of the Dead, a series of paintings drawn between...
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Isle of the Dead may refer to: Isle of the Dead (mythology),...
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Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss Symbolist painter. He is best known for his five versions of the Isle of the Dead, which inspired works by several late-Romantic composers. Biography. Arnold Böcklin was born in Basel.
29. Dez. 2023 · Though Arnold Böcklin’s mysterious painting Isle of the Dead, alternately known as Island of the Dead, may be passingly familiar to some, today it is widely considered rather obscure within the annals of art history.
Böcklin is best known for his five versions (painted in 1880-1886) of the 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.
