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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 ...
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 .
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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He held the office for two years, painting the Venus and Love, a Portrait of Lenbach, and a Saint Catherine. [1] He returned to Rome from 1862 to 1866, and there gave his fancy and his taste for violent colour free play in his Portrait of Mme Böcklin, and in An Anchorite in the Wilderness (1863), a Roman Tavern, and Villa on the Seashore (1864
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.
I've been playing the fiddle about 16 years, starting out playing classical violin." Competition growing again Event coordinator Justin Wallace was a longtime judge before taking over the contest.
According to Mahler's widow, Alma, the composer took inspiration for this movement from the 1872 painting Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin. [99] [110] Blaukopf writes that the violin passages betray "Mahler's penchant for the ludicrous and the eerie".