Silence of the Forest
Arnold Böcklin, 1885
Island of the Dead, 5th version
Arnold Böcklin, 1886
Zaichenschule of Ludwig Adam Kelterborn; with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf)
1850 – works with the Tugendbund, a German artists’ group, outside Rome
1859 – exhibits Pan in the Reeds (1856-58, Neue Pinakothek, Munich) at Munich Kunstverein; painting purchased by Maximilian II (King of Bavaria); appointed landscape professor at Weimar Kunstschule
1866 – receives a commission for fresco decorations for the Augustinergasse (now Museum für Natur- und Völkerkunde) in Basel
1870 – exhibits Murderer Pursued by Furies (Schack-Galerie, Munich) in Paris
1875 – moves to Florence
1880 – art dealer Fritz Gurlitt begins exhibiting Böcklin’s work regularly in Berlin and Dresden
1885 – settles in Zurich
1890 –returns to Italy
1893 – publication of reproductions of Böcklin’s work by Bruckmann in Munich
Belgium; Switzerland; Paris (1848; 1870); Rome (1850-57; 1862-66); Munich (1859; 1871); Florence (1875); Naples
Self-Portrait with Death Playing a Violin, 1872 (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
Odysseus and Calypso, 1883 (Kunstmuseum, Basel)
In the Sea, 1883 (The Art Institute of Chicago)
Sacred Grove, 1886 (Kunstmuseum, Basel)
The Plague, 1898 (Kunstmuseum, Basel)
Consul Carl Wilhem Wedekind; Graf Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Böcklin, Arnold. Arnold Böcklin, 1827-1901. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001 (in French)
Tumasonis, Elizabeth. “Böcklin’s Reputation: Its Rise and Fall,” Art Criticism, vol. 6 no. 2 (1990): 48-71