#diefenbach

«Isle of the Dead» («Toteninsel») by Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, 1900.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbacn (1851-1913) was a German symbolist also known as a radical social reformist. During his period of studying at Munich Academy of Art he was inspired by the art of the Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin. It significantly influenced the following works of Diefenbach which became more dark and mystical.

The painting «Isle of the Dead», or «Toteninsel» was inspired by the eponymous work of Bocklin. It can be called an homage to Böcklin’s painting and it is almost copying its motif and composition. Here we also can see figures floating towards the lonely monumental island. There is the dark colored rower which looks like a shadow and the bright white figure leaning over the coffin. Here again we see the Böcklin’s cypresses (symbol of grief, cypresses often grow on cemeteries in Southern climate), the rocky base of the island without any grass or other trees and the tombs embedded into the rocks.

L’isola dei morti riproposta: altri artisti

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851 – 1913)

Mermaid in the Vortex of a Wave, n.d.

In 1897, Diefenbach founded a commune near Vienna called Himmelhof. The commune was based on nudism, polyamory, and vegetarianism. They rejected traditional Christianity, in favor of living in divine harmony with nature.

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The software that I use for my genealogy site automatically generates a What’s New page that looks back 45 days. The only drawback is that it only tells you that a record has been changed. It doesn’t tell you what was changed. This is a slightly more detailed description of the edits. I renewed a six-month membership to Ancestry All-Access, so there will be substantial updates for the next few…