Mercury and Hersa, Ulysses and Achilles, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Nymphs and Satyrs, Vienna Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 556; Gaz. des B. Arts (1872), vi. 491; Michiels, ix. 67, 255.
BÖCKLIN, ARNOLD, born in Basle, Oct.
16, 1827. Landscape and history painter;
pupil in landscape painting of Düsseldorf
Academy under Schirmer; then studied
figure painting in Brussels. Visited Paris,
Rome, and in 1853 Basle, whence he went
to Munich. Became professor at the art
school in Weimar in 1858, but resigned two
years later and went again to Rome; lived
in Munich in 1871-76, and finally settled in
Florence. Works: Venus Reposing, Pan in
the Rushes (1857), Munich Gallery; Amazon-Hunt;
Sleeping Satyr-Family; Castle on
the Sea surprised by Corsairs; Chase of
Diana, Basle Museum; The Gods of Greece;
Anacreontic Shepherd-Boy; Robbery on
Italian Coast; Faun Family; Pietà, Portrait
of himself (1871); Fight of Centaurs;
Ceres and Bacchus; Panic Terror, Anchorite,
Portrait of his Wife (1863), Villa by
Sea (1869), Old Roman Tavern, Shepherd's
Love Lament, Murderer and Furies, Walk
to Emmaus, Dragon's Den, Ride of Death,
Wood Landscape with Nymph, Ideal Landscape,
Shepherdess, Sea-Idyl, Schack Gallery,
Munich; Descent from Cross (1876);
Isle of the Blessed (1878), National Gallery,
Berlin; Triton (1880).—Brockhaus, iii. 224;
Müller, 58; Pecht, ii. 180; Graph. K., ii. 77;
Grenzboten (1879), 397.
BOCKSBERGER (Boxberger), HANS,
born in Salzburg, in 1540. German school;
son and pupil of Hans Bocksberger; painted
chiefly battles, hunts, allegories, mythological
and historical subjects, in oil and
water colours, but especially in fresco, decorating
exteriors and interiors of houses
in Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Ratisbon,
Passau, Landshut, and Salzburg. Among
his works are: Wall paintings at Castle
Trausnitz, near Landshut, Bavaria (1579).—Allgem.
d. Biogr., ii. 788; Brockhaus, iii.
224; Nagler, Mon., iii. 189.
BODE, LEOPOLD, born at Offenbach,
March 11, 1831. History painter; pupil of
his father, then of the Städel Institute
under Jakob Becker, Passavant, Eugen
Schäffer, and from 1850 of Ed. Steinle, who
influenced him most. In 1858 he travelled
in Bavaria and Tyrol, and in 1860-65 assisted
Steinle in his frescos in the Cologne
Museum. In 1865 and 1875 he visited
Switzerland. Works: Scene from Ruth's
History (1856); Visitation; Workshop with
the Cross, Chronicle of Travelling Scholar,
Rudolf von Hapsburg (1868); Edelweiss
and Alpine Rose; The Alpine Bride; Scenes
from Legend of Charlemagne's Birth, Schack
Gallery, Munich.—Müller, 60.
BODE, WILHELM, born in Hamburg,
in 1830. Landscape painter; pupil of the
Vienna Academy; lived for eight years in
Munich; studio in Düsseldorf. Works:
Autumn Evening in the Mountains, Sunday
Morning in Salzburg, Isar-Valley, Morning
on the Königsee, View on Kochelsee, On the
Haidlinger Heights, From the Eifel, Valley
of Lauterbrunn, Morning on the Hinter-*see,
The Rampenwand near Rosenheim,
The Hundstod, Perspective in the Bavarian
Mountains, Mill on the Brook.—Müller, 60.
BODENMÜLLER, ALFONS, born in
Munich, Aug. 5, 1847. Genre painter;
pupil of Munich Academy under Ramberg
and Lindenschmit.—Müller, 60.
BODENMÜLLER, FRIEDRICH, born
in Munich, Aug. 11, 1845. Battle painter;
pupil of Munich Academy, but mostly self-*taught.
First painted genre and altar pieces,
but, having served in the German war of
1870-71 as an officer in the Bavarian army,
was led to cultivate his present specialty.
Works: Camping in the Rain, Patrol (1871);
Fight in the Streets of Bazeilles; Camp
near Ingolsheim; Battle of Sedan (1873),
Munich Gallery; Battle of Wörth; After
the Battle of Wörth; Camp of the French
on the Isle of Iges; Storming of Frösch-*weiler;
Elegy (1883).—Müller, 60.
BODENSTEIN, JULIUS, born in Berlin,
Aug. 4, 1847. Landscape painter; pupil of
