Arnold
Böcklin
The Shadow of the Isle Basel, Switzerland, provides the starting point for a life defined by the tension between the tangible and the spectral. Born on October 16, 1827, to Christian Frederick Böcklin and Ursula Lippe, the young man would eventually move beyond the silk …
A portrait built from Arnold Böcklin's own colours
Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.