DOI Heft:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Singer, Hans Wolfgang: On the work of Arnold Boecklin
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0088
The Work of Arnold Bcccklin
should be, after all, not hard to attain. For the does not contain any works of the last fifteen
difficult refinement of our sense we have achieved; years. All the greater public museums of Germany
the easier refinement of our senses we ought to be and Switzerland contain one or two beautiful
able to regain. specimens. About a year ago there appeared in
Bcecklin as an artist is " Dionysian," inasmuch Paris an enthusiastic monograph on him. Up till
as his feeling for august sentiment is just as keen then he had probably not been heard of abroad,
as it is for low humour and all that lies inter- however well he may have deserved it. He and
FROM A PAINTING BY ARNOLD BOiCKLlN
mediate. As I have said, if all his pictures were Menzel are indisputably the two most famous
to pass in review before us they would evoke about painters of Germany to-day.
all the psychical states that we are capable of. H- S;
This review of course is impossible. Bcecklin [The illustrations which accompany this article
belongs to the class of artist which cares little have been reproduced from photographs of the
for success and fame. It does not matter to him original pictures by permission of the owners of
where his pictures find a final resting-place, and they the copyright, the Photograph.sche Union of
are widely scattered about. The Schack Gallery at Munich, who, we understand, have in the press
Munich has probably the largest collection; but a book dealing with the work of Herr Bcecklin
even that does not represent Bcecklin well, as it illustrated by photogravure.]
should be, after all, not hard to attain. For the does not contain any works of the last fifteen
difficult refinement of our sense we have achieved; years. All the greater public museums of Germany
the easier refinement of our senses we ought to be and Switzerland contain one or two beautiful
able to regain. specimens. About a year ago there appeared in
Bcecklin as an artist is " Dionysian," inasmuch Paris an enthusiastic monograph on him. Up till
as his feeling for august sentiment is just as keen then he had probably not been heard of abroad,
as it is for low humour and all that lies inter- however well he may have deserved it. He and
FROM A PAINTING BY ARNOLD BOiCKLlN
mediate. As I have said, if all his pictures were Menzel are indisputably the two most famous
to pass in review before us they would evoke about painters of Germany to-day.
all the psychical states that we are capable of. H- S;
This review of course is impossible. Bcecklin [The illustrations which accompany this article
belongs to the class of artist which cares little have been reproduced from photographs of the
for success and fame. It does not matter to him original pictures by permission of the owners of
where his pictures find a final resting-place, and they the copyright, the Photograph.sche Union of
are widely scattered about. The Schack Gallery at Munich, who, we understand, have in the press
Munich has probably the largest collection; but a book dealing with the work of Herr Bcecklin
even that does not represent Bcecklin well, as it illustrated by photogravure.]