Arnold Bocklin was a Swiss Romantic
painter whose early works were sentimentalized,
cliche-ridden classical landscapes; his later fantastic pictures of creatures from Germanic legend
and classical mythology, e.g. Triton and Nereid
(1873/4), were ponderous rather than dramatic.
Imaginative landscapes, e.g. Isle of the Dead (1880), following the tradition of C. D.
Friedrich, have a supernatural, if theatrical,
atmosphere.
