Arnold
Böcklin
Primi anni e formazione Arnold Böcklin, pittore simbolista svizzero, nacque il 16 ottobre 1827 a Basilea, in Svizzera. Suo padre, Christian Frederick Böcklin, discendeva da una vecchia famiglia di Schaffhausen e si dedicava al commercio della seta. La madre, Ursula Lippe, era originaria della stessa …
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.
