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TitleThe Isle of the Dead

Creator nameBöcklin, Arnold

Creator nationality/cultureSwiss

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions110.9 × 156.4 cm

LocationKunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1118&viewType=detailView

Accession numberInv. 1055

SubjectsRomanticismLandscape painting, SwissDeath in art

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Epilogue

William Vaughan

German Romantic Painting

~‘ROMANTICISM is finished on this earth; the age of the railway has dawned.’ There were many in the middle of the century who felt, like the writer Theodore Fontane, that the new materialism had rendered the imaginative and subjective in art irrelevant. They failed to recognize that the Romantics had addressed themselves to fundamental human...

Author

William Vaughan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.239-241

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00058.015

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19709&redirecttoanchor=46085

Chapter subject tags:Romanticism--GermanyNationalism in artLandscape painting, GermanExpressionism (Art)--GermanySymbolism in art

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