The Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg

DOI

10.2991/icassee-19.2019.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Garden of Death; death studies; macabre; Hugo Simberg; philosophical garden; symbolism; Finnish art

Abstract

According to this theme of the Garden of Death twice — in a separate work and in the painting of the church in Tampere, Hugo Simberg portrays death as good-natured skeletons engaged in watering flowers in tubs against a forest, which is very unusual. Also, the interpretation of the garden itself only to some extent echoes the typology of campo santo, alchemical and philosophical gardens, gardens of meditation and desecrated gardens. Not finding Simberg's direct succession of the theme of the garden of death in the paintings of Constable, Kuvasseg and Böcklin, we can nevertheless fit his interest in the theme of gardens and images of death into the context of the art of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, finding parallels in graphics, poetry and music of that time.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Alena Grigorash
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BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
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