Arnold Bocklin The Sacred Wood Painting ID:: 91 Arnold Bocklin1.jpg
The Sacred Wood 1882
Kunstmuseum, Basel
Arnold Bocklin The Isle of the Dead Painting ID:: 93 Arnold Bocklin3.jpg
The Isle of the Dead 1880
111 x 155 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel
Arnold Bocklin Children Carving May Flutes Painting ID:: 94 Arnold Bocklin4.jpg
Children Carving May Flutes 1877
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Arnold Bocklin Pan Amongst the Reeds Painting ID:: 95 Arnold Bocklin5.jpg
Pan Amongst the Reeds 1856-57
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Arnold Bocklin Nymphs Bathing Painting ID:: 96 Arnold Bocklin6.jpg
Nymphs Bathing 1863-66
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Arnold Bocklin Triton and Nereid Painting ID:: 97 Arnold Bocklin7.jpg
Triton and Nereid 1877
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Arnold Bocklin Elysian Fields Painting ID:: 98 Arnold Bocklin8.jpg
Elysian Fields 1877
Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Arnold Bocklin Diana's Hunt Painting ID:: 11726 Arnold Bocklin_rdzAT9.jpg
Diana's Hunt 1896
3' 3 1/4'' x 2' 7 1/2''(100 x 80 cm)
Arnold Bocklin The Waves (mk09) Painting ID:: 21554 new6/Arnold Bocklin-884498.jpg
The Waves (mk09) 1883
Oil on canvas,180.3 x 237.5 cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Neue Pinakothek
Arnold Bocklin Venus Genitrix (mk19) Painting ID:: 22316 new7/Arnold Bocklin-885629.jpg
Venus Genitrix (mk19) 1895
Oil on canvas,115 x 170 cm
Kunsthaus Zurich,Zurich
Arnold Bocklin Centaurs' Combat (nn03) Painting ID:: 23257 new8/Arnold Bocklin-836285.jpg
Centaurs' Combat (nn03) 1873
Oil on canvas h105 x w195 cm h41 1/4 x w76 3/4in Kunstmuseum,Basel
Arnold Bocklin Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Violin Painting ID:: 27037 new2/Arnold Bocklin-328387.jpg
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Violin mk52
1872
Oil on canvas
75x61cm
Neue Nationalgalerie,Berlin
Arnold Bocklin Self-Portrait in his Studio Painting ID:: 27047 new2/Arnold Bocklin-853442.jpg
Self-Portrait in his Studio mk52
1893
Oil on canvas
120.5x80.5cm
Kunstmuseum,Basle
Arnold Bocklin The Isle of the Dead Painting ID:: 31189 new4/Arnold Bocklin-755389.jpg
The Isle of the Dead mk72
1880
Arnold Bocklin The Seated Demon Painting ID:: 31191 new4/Arnold Bocklin-323969.jpg
The Seated Demon mk72
1890
Oil on canvas
114x211cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow
Arnold Bocklin The Seated Demon Painting ID:: 31192 new4/Arnold Bocklin-958795.jpg
The Seated Demon mk72
1890
Arnold Bocklin Tamara and the Demon Painting ID:: 31193 new4/Arnold Bocklin-343222.jpg
Tamara and the Demon mk72
1890-91
Illustration for the poem The Demon by Mikhail Lermontov
Black watercolor and white on brown paper pasted on cardboard
66.5x50cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow
Arnold Bocklin Tamara's Dance Painting ID:: 31194 new4/Arnold Bocklin-953766.jpg
Tamara's Dance mk72
1890-91
Illustration for the poem The Demon by Mikhail Lermontov Black watercolor and white on paper
503x4cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow
Arnold Bocklin The Waves Painting ID:: 34013 new9/Arnold Bocklin-977435.jpg
The Waves mk87
1883
Oil on canvas
180.3x237.5cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde sammlungen,Neue Pinakothek
Arnold Bocklin Faun Whistling to Blackbird Painting ID:: 38736 new12/Arnold Bocklin-727547.jpg
Faun Whistling to Blackbird mk141
1863
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung,Munich
Arnold Bocklin Centaur Fight Painting ID:: 40751 new16/Arnold Bocklin-267899.jpg
Centaur Fight mk156
1873
Tempera on canvas
105x195cm
Arnold Bocklin Island of the Dead Painting ID:: 40773 new16/Arnold Bocklin-754739.jpg
Island of the Dead mk156
1880
Oil on wood
73.7x121.9cm
Arnold Bocklin Playing in the Waves Painting ID:: 40784 new16/Arnold Bocklin-785278.jpg
Playing in the Waves mk156
1883
Oil on canvas
180x238cm
Arnold Bocklin Kentaur in the village smiths Painting ID:: 45809 new17/Arnold Bocklin-496972.jpg
Kentaur in the village smiths mk178
1888
oils on wood
80x100cm
Arnold Bocklin self portrait with death playing the fiddle Painting ID:: 56275 new20/Arnold Bocklin-665555.jpg
self portrait with death playing the fiddle mk247
1872,oil on canvas,30x24 in,75x61 cm,staatliche museen,alte nationalgalerie,berlin,germany
Arnold Bocklin the lsland of the dead Painting ID:: 56319 new20/Arnold Bocklin-472859.jpg
the lsland of the dead mk247
1886,oil on wood,31.5x59 in,80x150 cm,museum der bildenden kunste,leipzig,germany
Arnold Bocklin Angelika, von einem Drachen bewacht oder Angelica und Ruggiero Painting ID:: 66171 new22/Arnold Bocklin-385995.jpg
Angelika, von einem Drachen bewacht oder Angelica und Ruggiero 1873
Oil on wood
46 x 67 cm
Arnold Bocklin Astolf reitet mit dem Haupte Orills davon Painting ID:: 66172 new22/Arnold Bocklin-369352.jpg
Astolf reitet mit dem Haupte Orills davon 1873
Oil on canvas
Arnold Bocklin Sirenen Painting ID:: 66173 new22/Arnold Bocklin-876495.jpg
Swiss
1827-1901
Arnold Bocklin Locations
Arnold Bocklin was born on Oct. 16, 1827, in Basel. He attended the Dusseldorf Academy (1845-1847). At this time he painted scenes of the Swiss Alps, using light effects and dramatic views subjectively to project emotional moods into the landscape. In 1848 this romantic introspection gave way to plein air (open-air) objectivity after he was influenced by Camille Corot, Eugene Delacroix, and the painters of the Barbizon school while on a trip to Paris. But after the February and June revolutions Bocklin returned to Basel with a lasting hatred and disgust for contemporary France, and he resumed painting gloomy mountain scenes.
In 1850 Bocklin found his mecca in Rome, and immediately his paintings were flooded by the warm Italian sunlight. He populated the lush southern vegetation, the bright light of the Roman Campagna, and the ancient ruins with lonely shepherds, cavorting nymphs, and lusty centaurs. These mythological figures rather than the landscapes became Bocklins primary concern, and he used such themes as Pan Pursuing Syrinx (1857) to express the polarities of life: warm sunshine contrasts with cool, moist shade, and the brightness of womans spirituality contrasts with mans dark sensuality.
When Bocklin returned to Basel with his Italian wife, he completed the painting which brought him fame when the king of Bavaria purchased it in 1858: Pan among the Reeds, a depiction of the Greek phallic god with whom the artist identified. He taught at the Academy of Art in Weimar from 1860 to 1862, when he returned to Rome. Called to Basel in 1866, he painted the frescoes and modeled the grotesque masks for the facade of the Basel Museum.
Bocklin resided in Florence from 1874 until 1885, and this was his most active period. He continued to explore the male-female antithesis and painted religious scenes, allegories of Natures powers, and moody studies of mans fate. He ceased working with oils and began experimenting with tempera and other media to obtain a pictorial surface free of brushstrokes.
Bocklin spent the next 7 years mostly in Switzerland, with occasional trips to Italy; he devoted much of his energy to designing an airplane. Following a stroke in 1892, he returned to Italy, bought a villa in Fiesole, and died there on Jan. 16, 1901. Many of his late works depict nightmares of war, plague, and death.