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Painted in Munich, the painting depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a personification of death playing a single-stringed violin in an intimation of his mortality. It is an echo of an earlier painting of Sir Brian Tuke by an anonymous painter c.1540, part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, in which the shadowing figure of ...
His Portrait of Myself, with Death playing a violin (1872), was painted after his return again to Munich, where he exhibited Battle of the Centaurs, Landscape with Moorish Horsemen and A Farm (1875). From 1876 to 1885 Böcklin was working at Florence, and painted a Pietà, Ulysses and Calypso, Prometheus, and the Sacred Grove. [1]
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Ride of Death (Autumn and Death) 1871 oil on canvas 79 × 136.5 Schackgalerie, Munich Sacred Grove c. 1871 oil on canvas 80.5 × 103.1 Schackgalerie, Munich Villa by the sea. 3rd version 1871–1874 oil on canvas 108 × 154 Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle: 1872 oil on canvas
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Pages in category "Paintings by Arnold Böcklin" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle;
Corinth is believed to have painted the Self-Portrait with Skeleton in response to the Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872), by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, who was widely admired back then in Germany. Böcklin depicted the skeleton in his work as a live figure, he plays the violin while the artist listens to it.
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1901, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .
Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin, held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. The painting shows Death riding on a bat-like winged creature who travels through a street in a medieval European town.