Arnold Böcklin

Böcklin conjures brooding mythological dreamworlds — cypress islands, nymphs, silent allegories. Look for eerie stillness, classical motifs, and a dark, romantic, symbolic mood (famously the Isle of the Dead).

Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901) was a painter from Switzerland, associated with Symbolism.

A late-19th-century movement of dreams, myth, and inner emotion expressed through suggestive, evocative imagery. Symbolism →