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See also:ARNOLD See also:BOCKLIN (1827–1901)
, Swiss painter, was See also:born at See also:Basel on the 16th of See also:October 1827
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His See also:father, See also:Christian See also:Frederick See also:Bocklin (b
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1802), was descended from an old See also:family of See also:Schaffhausen, and engaged in the See also:silk See also:trade
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His See also:mother, See also:Ursula See also:Lippe, was a native of the same See also:city
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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
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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
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After serving his time in the See also:army he set out for See also:Rome in See also:
These works, which were much discussed, together with See also:Lenbach's recommendation, gained him his See also:appointment as See also:professor at the See also:Weimar academy
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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
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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)
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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)
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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: (H . |
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