Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin - 1886 - 80 × 150 cm Museum der bildenden Künste Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin - 1886 - 80 × 150 cm Museum der bildenden Künste

Isle of the Dead

oil on panel • 80 × 150 cm
  • Arnold Böcklin - 16 October 1827 - 16 January 1901 Arnold Böcklin 1886

Prints of Isle of the Dead were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century - Freud, Lenin, and Clemenceau all had prints of it in their offices. Böcklin painted five versions (painted in 1880-1886) of the Isle... that evokes the cemetery in Florence, where the painter buried his children (he lost 8 out of 14). The model for the isle really exists - it is a small island near Corfu.