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Arnold Böcklin

1827 - 1901

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Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss Symbolist painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Böcklin has received more than 516,737 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Arnold Böcklin is the 120th most popular painter (up from 125th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Painter.

Arnold Böcklin is most famous for his painting "Isle of the Dead."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arnold Böcklin ranks 120 out of 1,421Before him are Annibale Carracci, Mary Cassatt, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Gustave Moreau, Umberto Boccioni, and Apelles. After him are Mark Rothko, Jan Steen, Charles Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Arnold Böcklin ranks 2Before him is Johanna Spyri. After him are Josef Strauss, Ellen G. White, Joseph Lister, Heonjong of Joseon, Francisco Solano López, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Marcellin Berthelot, Deodoro da Fonseca, Jyotirao Phule, and John Hanning Speke. Among people deceased in 1901, Arnold Böcklin ranks 7Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria, Princess Royal, Johanna Spyri, and Benjamin Harrison. After him are William McKinley, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, and Li Hongzhang.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Arnold Böcklin ranks 25 out of 876Before him are Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Albert Hofmann (1906), Ursula Andress (1936), Carl Spitteler (1845), Bruno Ganz (1941), and Élie Ducommun (1833). After him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Conrad Gessner (1516), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Erich von Däniken (1935), and Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921).

Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Arnold Böcklin ranks 2Before him are Paul Klee (1879). After him are Johannes Itten (1888), Henry Fuseli (1741), Angelica Kauffman (1741), H. R. Giger (1940), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), Bernardino Luini (1475), Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), and Matthäus Merian (1593).