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Friday, January 22, 2010

Hitler's Favorite Painter

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The Isle of the Dead

Arnold Bocklin was a 19th century symbolist painter whose work influenced and inspired Salvador Dali, Sergi Rachmaninoff, Marcel Duchamp and H. R. Giger. Adolph Hitler owned eleven of his paintings and cited Bocklin as his favorite painter.

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The following images come from this Japanese site devoted to Bocklin's work.

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Here are some other great 19th century symbolist and romantic painters to check out at the same site...

Henry Fuseli
Thomas Cole
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
George Frederic Watts
John Martin
Jean Delville
Louis Janmot
Evelyn De Morgan
Gaetano Previati

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