Battle of the Centaurs Arnold Böcklin Description

Böcklin Arnold (German Arnold Böcklin, October 16, 1827, Basel, Switzerland - January 16, 1901, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy) - Swiss painter, graphic artist, sculptor; one of the outstanding representatives of symbolism in the European fine arts of the XIX century and Dusseldorf art school.
Paintings of the Böcklin, bright and sharp in color, are written mostly with tempera. In the paintings of Böklin is a fictional world, often deliberately mysterious. At first Boeklin wrote romantic landscapes with mythological figures, then - fantastic scenes with nymphs, sea monsters, etc. (Triton and Nereid, 1873-1874). Later compositions (The Island of the Dead, 1880, the Old National Gallery, Berlin, at the beginning of the 20th century, reproductions from it were very popular), where fantastic symbolism combined with the naturalistic authenticity of details influenced the formation of German symbolism and yugendstil.