Symbolism Römischer Кreis
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.
Influenced by Romanticism, Böcklin's symbolist use of imagery derived from mythology and legend often overlapped with the aesthetic of the Pre-Raphaelites. Many of his paintings are imaginative interpretations of the classical world, or portray mythological subjects in settings involving classical architecture, often allegorically exploring death and mortality in the context of a strange, fantasy world.
Anselm Feuerbach was a famous 19th-century German painter, an outstanding master of the historical genre.
Anselm Feuerbach was also a skilful portrait painter, the majority of his paintings are in the style of Neoclassicism. His finest masterpieces are nowadays kept in museums in Germany, and his biography is closely linked to Italy, where the artist lived for a considerable part of his life.
Hans von Marees was a German artist of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a representative of symbolism.
Von Marees was a prominent not only practitioner but also art theorist. He created the "Roman Circle" of German artists, whose activities in Italy seriously influenced the development of fine art of the turn. Marees 's work was centered on the theme of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, he sought to achieve the ideal relationship between form and space, as in the art of the ancient Greeks and the Italian Renaissance. At the height of his career, he turned to mythological subjects and developed a sophisticated technique, creating deep and saturated colors with layers of oil paint.