#Arnold Böcklin

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Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

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Works insipired by Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”

Suehiro Maruo, 2013

Philippe Caza, 1989

Philippe Druillet, 1976

Milo Manara, 1998

H.R. Giger, (right image from the series “Passages”) 1975

…and the original, Arnold Böcklin, 1880

[venustapolis]

The Chapel (Arnold Böcklin, 1873)

[weirdlookindog]

Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) - Isle of the Dead: "Basel" version, 1880

[beatricecenci]

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)

Kapelle

[zegalba]

Arnold Böcklin: Die Toteninsel VI (1901)

[dolcesostenuto]

Swan Grotto | Arnold Böcklin

[forbidden-sorcery]

Arnold Böcklin - The Surf

[underworldhadess]

Isle of the Dead, 1883 - oil on panel

— Arnold Böcklin (Germany, 1827–1901)

[eirene]

Portrait of the Actress Fanny Janauschek, 1861

Arnold Böcklin

[random-brushstrokes]

Arnold Böcklin - Ruins by the Sea (1880)

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Nymph by Arnold Böcklin (1875)

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Krieg II (War II) by Arnold Böcklin (1896)

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Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) - Die Pest (The Plague), 1898

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Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)

Villa am Meer I

[dharmaart]

I just watched The Boy and the Heron and I'm convinced that there is some kind of connection between it and the art of the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. The strange ruins/tomb by the sea and all those cyprus trees. There is even a painting by Böcklin (St. Anthony preaching to the fish) with a bunch of fish coming out of the water to talk to a person - just like in the movie! This is probably just a silly theory but I want it to be true.

The Isle of the Dead (1883) by Arnold Böcklin  (1827–1901).

(Picture source The Isle of the Dead)