Die Meeresbrandung

c. 1877

not on display

Arnold Böcklin1827 Basel – 1901 San Domenico bei Fiesole

Böcklin wanted to depict the sound of the surf here. Larger, more streamlined and detailed main version in Berlin. The counterpart shows a triton blowing on a sea snail on a rock amidst waves.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

The Surf

Medium

Oil varnish on tempera on canvas over wood

Dimensions

image: 81 x 55 cm

Inventory number

1950

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Bequest of August Weidmann, 1929

Signature

inscr. u. r.: AB

Inscriptions

Catalogue raisonné

Andree 1998 406.327

Accession year

1929

Provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 183. - Rolf Andree: Arnold Böcklin. Die Gemälde (Œuvrekataloge Schweizer Künstler 6), Basel: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1998, No. 327, S. 406 (ill.).

Object type

painting

Classification

C 1[1] painting 19th century CHE

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