BOECKLIN, ARNOLD (182 7-1901), Swiss painter, was born at Basle Oct. 16 1827, and died at San Domenico, near Florence, Jan. 16 1901. He studied at Dusseldorf, Antwerp, Brus sels and Paris, but found his real inspiration in Italy, where he re turned from time to time, and where the last years of his life were spent. Boecklin first won a reputation by his "Great Pan," ex hibited at Munich in 1856, and bought for the Pinakohek, and from 1858 to 1861, taught at the Weimar academy, but the nostalgia of the Italian landscape pursued him, and after an in terval, during which he completed his mythological frescoes for the decoration of the gallery at Basle, he returned to Italy. At Basle, and in almost all the great German galleries, there are many examples of his art. However, he was first and foremost a land scape painter. In his numerous mythological subjects he sought to express the soul of the landscape in the figures to which it gave birth. His influence on German painting, especially on the Munich school, was very great. His life has been written by Henri Mendelssohn.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. See also F. Hermann, Gazette des Beaux Arts Bibliography. See also F. Hermann, Gazette des Beaux Arts (1893) ; W. Ritter, Arnold Bocklin (Gaud, 1895) ; Max Lehrs, Arnold Bocklin, Ein Leitfaden zum Verstdndniss seiner Kunst (Munich, 1897) ; Katalog der Bocklin Jubildums Ausstellung (Basle, 1897) ; and R. Muther, History of Modern Painting, vol. iii.