Arnold Böcklin

1827–1901 · Symbolism

Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers.

39 paintings

• In the Sea (1883)
• Sea Idyll (1887)
• The painter Franz von Lenbach (1862)
• Ruin by the Sea (1881)
• The Death of Cleopatra (1872)
• Sacred grove (1882)
• Portrait of Jakob Mähly (1848)
• Head of a Roman (1863)
• Portrait of Louisa Schmid (1849)
• Mountain Landscape with Chamois (1849)
• Mountain Landscape with Waterfall (1849)
• Landscape at Sunset (1849)
• Forest Landscape with Reclining Pan (1855)
• Viola (1866)
• Melancholy (1871)
• Nymphe with Horn of Plenty (1866)
• The March of the Goths (1881)
• Self-Portrait in the Studio (1893)
• On the Way to Emmaus (1868)
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1868)
• Zelfportret (1862)
• Venus Abandoned (1850)
• The megalithic tomb (1847)
• Bildnis Anna Elisabeth Burckhardt-Brenner (1868)
• Bildnis Clara Bruckmann-Böcklin (1876)
• Bildnis Wilhelmine Wiggenhauser (1849)
• Isle of the Dead (1880)
• The Plague (1898)
• Play of the Nereides (1886)
• A Spring in a Narrow Gorge (1881)
• Island of the Dead (1880)
• Roman Landscape (ca. 1850–52)
• A Cliff Face (1852)
• The Sanctuary of Hercules (1884)
• Nymph and Satyr (1871)
• Sappho (1862)
• Spring (Songs of Spring) (1876)
• A Nymph at the Fountain (Pan, Chasing a Nymph) (1855)
• Pan chasing a Nymph (verso) (1855)