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BOCKLIN, ARNOLD (1827–1901)

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BOCKLIN, See also:ARNOLD (1827–1901) , Swiss painter, was See also:born at See also:Basel on the 16th of See also:October 1827. His See also:father, See also:Christian See also:Frederick Bocklin (b. 1802), was descended from an old See also:family of See also:Schaffhausen, and engaged in the See also:silk See also:trade. His See also:mother, See also:Ursula See also:Lippe, was a native of the same See also:city. In 1846 he began his studies at the See also:Dusseldorf See also:academy under See also:Schirmer, who recognized in him a student of exceptional promise, and sent him to See also:Antwerp and See also:Brussels, where he copied the See also:works of Flemish and Dutch masters. Bocklin then went to See also:Paris, worked at the Louvre, and painted several landscapes; his " Landscape and Ruin " reveals at the same See also:time a strong feeling for nature and a dramatic conception of scenery. After serving his time in the See also:army he set out for See also:Rome in See also:March 185o, and the sight of the Eternal City was a fresh stimulus to his mind. So, too, was the See also:influence of See also:Italian nature and that of the dead See also:pagan See also:world. At Rome he married (See also:June 20, 1853) Angela See also:Rosa Lorenza Pascucci. In 1856 he returned to See also:Munich, and remained there four years. He then exhibited the " See also:Great See also:Park," one of his earliest works, in which he treated See also:ancient See also:mythology with the See also:stamp of individuality, which was the basis of his reputation. Of this See also:period, too, are his " Nymph and Satyr," " Heroic Landscape " (See also:Diana See also:Hunting), both of 1858, and " See also:Sappho " (1859).

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Lenbach's recommendation, gained him his See also:appointment as See also:professor at the See also:Weimar academy. He held the See also:office for two years, See also:painting the " See also:Venus and Love," a " Portrait of Lenbach," and a " See also:Saint See also:Catherine." He was again at Rome from 1862 to 1866, and there gave his See also:fancy and his See also:taste for violent See also:colour See also:free See also:play in his " Portrait of Mme Bocklin," now in the Basel See also:gallery, in " An Anchorite in the See also:Wilderness" (1863) ; a " See also:Roman See also:Tavern," and " See also:Villa on the See also:Sea-See also:shore " (1864) ; this last, one of his best pictures. He returned to Basel in 1866 to finish his frescoes in the gallery, and to paint, besides several portraits, " The Magdalene with See also:Christ " (1868); " See also:Anacreon's Muse " (1869); and " A See also:Castle and Warriors " (1871). His " Portrait of Myself," with See also:Death playing a See also:violin (1873), was painted after his return again to Munich, where he exhibited his famous " See also:Battle of the See also:Centaurs " (in the Basel gallery); " Landscape with Moorish Horsemen" (in the See also:Lucerne gallery); and "A See also:Farm" (1875). From 1876 to 1885 Bocklin was working at See also:Florence, and painted a " Pieta," " Ulysses and See also:Calypso," " See also:Prometheus," and the " Sacred See also:Grove." From 1886 to 1892 he settled at See also:Zurich. Of this period are the " Naiads at Play," " A Sea Idyll," and " See also:War." After 1892 Bocklin resided at See also:San Domenico, near Florence. An See also:exhibition of his collected works was held at Basel from the loth of See also:September to the 24th of October 1897. He died on the 16th of See also:January 1901. His See also:life has been written by See also:Henri Mendelssohn. See also F. See also:Hermann, See also:Gazette See also:des See also:Beaux Arts (Paris, 1893) ; Max See also:Lehrs, Arnold Bocklin, Ein Leitfaden zum Verstandniss seiner Kunst (Munich, 1897); W. See also:Ritter, Arnold Bocklin (Gand, 1895); Katalog der Bocklin Jubilaums Ausstellung (Basel, 1897).

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