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Arnold Bocklin (Basel, 1827 - San Domenico di Fiesole, 1901). His first production was landscape, but following his numerous trips to Italy, romanticism and symbolism became his main stylistic connotations. Read the full biography

Arnold Böcklin Biography

Arnold Bocklin (Basel, 1827 - San Domenico di Fiesole, 1901). His first production was landscape, but following his numerous trips to Italy, romanticism and symbolism became his main stylistic connotations. The subjects that best translate these characteristics are the mythological ones, dream creatures placed in Arcadian settings rich in allegory and mystery. Often from the artist's paintings, a recurring and obsessive sense of death shines through, which makes his works full of tension. After his artistic studies and drawing courses, he went to Dusseldorf to attend the Academy of Fine Arts and met Fuerbach. he later travels between Antwerp and Brussels, where he learns the chromaticism of Flemish painters and Dutch masters. He settled in Rome and here discovered the charm of classical culture. In 1866 he returned to Basel, created some portraits and frescoed the staircase of the Kunstmuseum with mythological subjects. He went to Stuttgart and then to Munich, but in 1874 he returned to Italy, to Florence where he painted mythological canvases and a self-portrait for the Uffizi Gallery. Bocklin's work influenced Surrealist painters such as Ernst, Dalì and De Chirico.