Arnold Böcklin, Self-Portrait 1873.
Arnold Böcklin, Plague 1898.
Plague exemplifies the artist's obsession with
nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting
shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature, who
travels through the street of a medieval European town.
Arnold Böcklin, Roman Landscape 1852.
Arnold Böcklin, The War 1896.
War (German: Der Krieg) is the title of two oil paintings
on the same theme completed in quick succession in
1896 by the Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin.
The first version is in the collection of the Galerie Neue
Meister, Dresden and the second, defined as
unfinished, in the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland.
Arnold Böcklin, The Chapel 1898.
Arnold Böcklin, Ulysses and Calypso 1882.
Arnold Böcklin, Under the Arbor 1891.
Arnold Böcklin, Honeymoon 1878.
Arnold Böcklin, Island of the Dead (Third Version) 1883.
Böcklin painted five versions of the paintings between 1880 and
1886.
The sixth version was painted in 1901.
The third version of the painting was painted by Böcklin in 1883 for
his sales
agent and collector Fritz Gurlitt. In it the initials "A. B." on one
of the funeral
niches in the rock on the right. In 1933, the painting was put up for
sale.
It was purchased by Adolf Hitler. The Führer considered Böcklin "his
artist"
for its "true Teutonic spirit". At first the painting was in his
personal
residence in Berghof, and after 1940 it decorated the cabinet of
the
Reich Chancellery in Berlin. In addition to it, Hitler had ten other
works
by Böcklin in his collection.
Arnold Böcklin, Villa by the Sea 1871-1874.
Arnold Böcklin, Attack by Pirates 1886.
Arnold Böcklin, Centaurus and Nymph 1855.
Arnold Böcklin, Moonlit Landscape 1849.
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