Who painted “Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle”?

“Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle” was painted by Arnold Böcklin in 1872. Where to see it: Alte Nationalgalerie.

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Arnold Böcklin: mythical, brooding landscapes: islands of the dead, cypresses, nymphs and centaurs in dark Romantic colour.

Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers. Wikipedia

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“The Plague”, 1898
“Odysseus and Polyphemus”, 1896
“The War”, 1896
“Roger freeing Angelica”, 1873
“Odysseus and Calypso”, 1882
“Spring Evening”, 1879
“Sleeping Diana Watched by Two Fauns”, 1881
“Faun whistling to a Blackbird”, 1863