of the Dead) and Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen both composed symphonic poems after it. Rachmaninoff was also inspired by Böcklin's painting Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming" or "The Return") when writing his Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10. Andreas Hallén, a Swedish Romantic composer, wrote a symphonic poem Die Toteninsel in 1898. In 1903, Austrian, later American, composer Karl Weigl composed a tone poem for piano "Die Toteninsel". In 1913 Max Reger composed a set of Four Tone Poems after Böcklin with the movements "Der geigende Eremit", "Im Spiel der Wellen", "Die Toteninsel", and "Bacchanal". In Mark Robson's film Isle of the Dead (1945), Disney composer Leigh Harline's somber score makes use of Sergei Rachmaninoff's music. Hans Huber's second symphony is entitled Böcklin-Sinfonie, after the artist and his paintings. Felix Woyrsch composed 3 Böcklin Phantasies (Die Toteninsel, Der Eremit, Im Spiel der Wellen), Op. 53 (1910). Fulvio Caldini composed L'isola di Böcklin, his Op.85 for electronic instruments (2001). Other Otto Weisert designed an Art Nouveau typeface in 1904 and named it "Arnold Böcklin" in his honor. Adolf Hitler was fond of Böcklin's work, at one time owning 11 of his paintings. Roger Zelazny titled one of his novels Isle of the Dead after Böcklin's paintings, and an Ace books edition featured a cover painting by Dean Ellis that was deliberately reminiscent of Böcklin's work. Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, opened his 1942 laudatory article on Dmitry Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony with an allusion to Böcklin's painting "War". Works References External links Bocklin in "History of Art" Böcklin biography and images at CGFA A gallery of art from Arnold Böcklin 70 different engravings by Arnold Böcklin on display with translations (Archived 2009-10-25) German masters of the nineteenth century : paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Arnold Böcklin (nos. 5–10) "Brahms, Böcklin, and the Gesang der Parzen", by Eftychia Papanikolaou; article in Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography 30/1-2 (Spring-Fall 2005): 154–165. 1827 births 1901 deaths Artists from Basel-Stadt Symbolist painters 19th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Düsseldorf school of painting 19th-century Swiss male artists