Arnold
Böcklin
Premières années et formation Arnold Böcklin, peintre symboliste suisse, est né le 16 octobre 1827 à Bâle, en Suisse. Son père, Christian Frederick Böcklin, descendait d'une vieille famille de Schaffhouse et exerçait dans le commerce de la soie. Sa mère, Ursula Lippe, était originaire de …
A portrait built from Arnold Böcklin's own colours
Every 82 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.
