J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Date: 1881
Technique: Oil on canvas
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Showing posts with label Arnold Böcklin. Show all posts
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Arnold Böcklin, Attack by Pirates

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln
Date: Second half of 19th century
Technique: Colour varnish on mahogany panel, 153 x 232 cm
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9/20/11
Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) - The fourth version

Date: 1884
Technique: Original in oil on copper, 81 x 151 cm
Financial imperatives resulted in a fourth version in 1884, which was ultimately acquired by the entrepreneur and art collector Baron Heinrich Thyssen and hung at his Berliner Bank subsidiary. It was burned after a bomb attack during World War II and survives only as a black-and-white photograph.
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7/15/11
Arnold Böcklin, Will-O’-The-Wisp (Das Irrlicht)

Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt
Date: 1862
Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 59 cm
A will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus (Latin, from ignis, "fire" + fatuus, "foolish") — also called will-o'-wisp, corpse candle, jack-o'-lantern, and friar's lantern— is the folklore term for a ghostly light sometimes seen at night or twilight over bogs, swamps, and marshes. It resembles a flickering lamp and is sometimes said to recede if approached. Much traditional, non-scientific belief surrounds the phenomenon.
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5/16/11
Arnold Böcklin, The Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) - The third version
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