• Isle of Life by Arnold Bocklin, gallery canvas print
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Isle of Life | Arnold Böcklin | 1888

Isle of Life | Arnold Böcklin | 1888

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"Isle of Life" by Arnold Böcklin, painted in 1888, is a serene and dreamlike depiction of an idyllic island bathed in soft, glowing light. The island, surrounded by calm waters, features lush vegetation and classical structures, creating an almost mythological ambiance. Böcklin's use of light and color imbues the scene with a sense of tranquility and timelessness, evoking themes of paradise and eternal peace. This painting contrasts with his more famous "Isle of the Dead," offering a vision of life and vitality in a similarly enchanting and otherworldly setting.

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  • Title The Isle of Life (Die Lebensinsel)
  • Artist Arnold Böcklin (Swiss Symbolist painter; Basel, 16 October 1827 - San Domenico, near Fiesole, Kingdom of Italy, 16 January 1901)
  • Year of creation 1888 (also titled in French L'île des vivants and in English The Isle of the Living; Andree catalogue raisonné no. 407. In this composition Böcklin reworks motifs from his earlier large-scale painting Gefilde der Seligen [Fields of the Blessed], which he had completed in 1878 on commission for the Nationalgalerie Berlin and which has been lost since 1945 — Andree no. 320. Die Lebensinsel has often been read in the literature, on the basis of its compositional parallels, as a deliberate counterpart to Die Toteninsel [Isle of the Dead] — of which the first version, also at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Inv. 1055, was painted in 1880 — though scholars such as Rolf Andree have questioned the assumption of a conscious pendant pairing. Painted in the same year as the final, fifth version of the Isle of the Dead, the work shows a small sun-drenched island crowned with a sacred grove of varied trees from temperate and tropical zones, palms and blossoming cherries growing impossibly together; in a meadow at the centre of the island colourfully-dressed figures dance and revel, and in the foreground swans and water-figures move through the calm sea around the shore. The whole functions as the photographic negative of the Toteninsel — colour, life, sound, and movement where the other holds silence, ash, and cypresses — though painted only once, with no replicating versions made by the artist)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on mahogany panel (signed lower right: A B)
  • Original dimensions 93.3 x 140.1 cm
  • Collection/Museum Kunstmuseum Basel (Inv. G 1960.12; acquired 1960 from the Swiss dealer Ernst Mähr-Walser. Provenance: Emil Oelbermann, Cologne until 1897; Laura Oelbermann [Laura von Oelbermann, ennobled 1918] 1898-1929; her estate auction at Lempertz, Cologne, 11 December 1929, lot 18; Eduard Sturzenegger of St Gallen, 1929-1959; offered without sale at Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 28 November 1959, lot 2298; then Ernst Mähr-Walser of St Gallen, 1959)

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