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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".
- Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a...
- Isle of the Dead (Rachmaninoff)
Isle of the Dead (Russian: Остров мёртвых), Op. 29, is a...
- Isle of the Dead
Isle of the Dead (film), a 1945 horror film. Isle of the...
- Arnold Böcklin
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's mysterious Isle of the Dead is one of the most often reproduced paintings in the history of art. It fascinated Lenin and Hitler, Freud and Clémenceau, and inspired both Dali and Scorsese. The painting represents the final journey as described in Greek mythology, as the boatman Charon accompanies the dead to the underworld on the ...
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.
