File:Arnold Böcklin - Odysseus and Polyphemus.jpg

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Odysseus and Polyphemus (1896). Oil and tempera on panel, 66 cm × 150 cm (26 in × 59 in). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

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Arnold Böcklin: Odysseus and Polyphemus  wikidata:Q20537891 reasonator:Q20537891
Artist
Arnold Böcklin  (1827–1901)  wikidata:Q123071 s:de:Arnold Böcklin q:de:Arnold Böcklin
 
Arnold Böcklin
Description Swiss painter, sculptor, university teacher, drawer and designer
Date of birth/death 16 October 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 16 January 1901 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Basel Edit this at Wikidata Fiesole Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Basel; Weimar; Florence; Düsseldorf; Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q123071
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Odysseus and Polyphemus
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythology Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Böcklin’s original training as a landscape painter shines through in this unconventional interpretation of an episode from the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey. Crashing waves meet jagged rocks in a spray and scurry of foam. Escaping from the island of the Cyclopes—one-eyed, ill-tempered giants—the hero Odysseus calls back to the shore, taunting the Cyclops Polyphemus, who heaves a boulder after the boat. Unlike Academic colleagues who treated ancient mythology with reverence and solemnity, Böcklin often played up strange, grotesque, and even ridiculous elements of these stories, conjuring a pre-Classical world governed by violence and lust.
Date 1896
date QS:P571,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil and tempera on panel
Dimensions height: 66 cm (25.9 in); width: 150 cm (59 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,66U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,150U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Current location
not on view
Accession number
2012.626
Object history A. von der Mühll-Bachofen, Basel (acquired in 1896)
Mrs. A. von der Mühll-Bachofen, Basel (widow of the above, by 1927)
Mrs. Fürstenberger-von der Mühll, Rheinfelden (by descent from the above by 1938)
Kunsthandlung Schulthess, Basel
Private Collection, Arlesheim, near Basel (by 1968)
Acquired by the present owner circa 2000
Exhibition history Basel, Kunsthalle, Böcklin-Jubiläums-Ausstellung, 1897, no. 84
Basel, Kunsthalle, Böcklin-Ausstellung, 1917, no. 123
Basel, Kunsthalle, Böcklin: Ausstellung zum Gedächtnis an seinen 50. Todestag, 1951, no. 121
Basel, Kunsthalle, Arnold Böcklin, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken. Ausstellung zum 150. Geburtstag, 1977, no. 195
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, Arnold Böcklin, Ausstellung zum 150. Geburtstag, 1977, no. 81
Credit line Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Gift of Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall
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Monogram and date bottom left:

AB 1896
References Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ArtDaily.org announcement preceding its purchase
Source/Photographer Sotheby's London, 11 June 2012, lot 8 (has longer description)
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The author died in 1901, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

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