Arnold Böcklin
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Isle of the Dead
1886
Isle of the Dead is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827 to 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". Böcklin produced several different versions of the painting between 1880 and 1886, which today are exhibited in Basel, New York City, Berlin, and Leipzig.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
1872
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a painted self-portrait executed in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. He first exhibited at the Kunstverein München in the same year, establishing his reputation in Munich's artistic community. It is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, in Berlin.
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