Isle of the Dead, by Arnold Böcklin
December 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Paintings | Tags: quite like | Add a Comment »
The good news about The Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin is that it’s beautiful, and that there are five different versions of it, each one of which is beautiful in its own way.
The bad news is that Adolf Hitler liked this painting. He bought it, actually. And Lenin had a print of it in his office.
Yeah.
It’s kinda scary to think that I saw and liked a painting that spoke deeply to both Hitler and Lenin. But be honest… didn’t you like it too? A little?