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Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a painted self-portrait executed in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. He first exhibited at the Kunstverein München in the same year, establishing his reputation in Munich's artistic community. It is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. [1]

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
Year	1872
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	75 cm × 61 cm (30 in × 24 in)

Painted in Munich, the painting depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a personification of death playing a single-stringed violin in an intimation of his mortality. It is an echo of an earlier painting of Sir Brian Tuke by an anonymous painter c.1540, part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, in which the shadowing figure of Death is pointing at an hourglass.

Death and mortality is a repeating theme in several of Böcklin's works, including Plague, two versions of War, and five versions of Isle of the Dead.

According to Alma Mahler, the wife of the composer Gustav Mahler, her husband was "under the spell" of Böcklin's self-portrait when writing the scherzo movement of his Fourth Symphony.[2]

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[de] Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod

Selbstporträt mit fiedelndem Tod ist ein 1872 entstandenes Gemälde von Arnold Böcklin. Es befindet sich heute in der Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Es wurde erstmals 1872 im Münchner Kunstverein ausgestellt und etablierte Arnold Böcklins Ruf in der Münchner Kunstgemeinde.[1]

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- [en] Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle

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[it] Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino

L'Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino è un dipinto del pittore svizzero Arnold Böcklin, realizzato nel 1872 e conservato all'Alte Nationalgalerie di Berlino.

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[ru] Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке

Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке (нем. Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod) — картина швейцарского художника Арнольда Бёклина 1872 года. В настоящее время полотно находится в Национальной галерее Государственного музея прусского культурного наследия в Берлине. Впервые работа была выставлена в Kunstverein München[de] в 1872 году, создав Арнольду Бёклину репутацию в мюнхенском художественном сообществе[4].

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