Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a painted self-portrait executed in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. He first exhibited at the Kunstverein München in the same year, es
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Sir Brian Tuke, c.1540, anonymous after Hans Holbein the Younger
Plague (painting)
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Plague is an 1898 painting in tempera by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin, held in the Kunstmuseum Basel. It exemplifies the artist's obsession with nightmares of war, pestilence and death. T
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
…in which the shadowing figure of Death is pointing at an hourglass. Death and mortality is a repeating theme in several of Böcklin's works, including Plague, two versions of War, and five versions of Isle of the Dead. According to Alma Mahler, the wife of the composer Gustav Mahler, her husband was "under…
Arnold Böcklin Die Pest