Get a Böcklin Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Böcklin drawing.

For all your Böcklin artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Böcklin Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Böcklin painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Böcklin painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Böcklin selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Böcklin and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Böcklin experts and Böcklin certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Böcklin artworks.

Our Böcklin paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Böcklin certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Böcklin painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Böcklin paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Böcklin collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

Do you think you may own a painting by Arnold Böcklin?

We perform Arnold Böcklin art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests , full art authentications. We will help you sell your Arnold Böcklin or we will sell it for you.

Arnold Böcklin was a symbolist Swiss painter. He studied at Düsseldorf where he became a friend of Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach. Originally a landscape painter, his travels through Brussels, Zurich, Geneva and Rome, exposed him to classical and Renaissance art, and the Mediterranean landscape. These new influences brought allegorical and mythological figures into his compositions. In 1866 he resided at Bâle, in 1871 in Munich, in 1885 in Hottingen (Switzerland) and at the end of his life in Fiesole.

Influenced by Romanticism his painting is symbolist within the Art Nouveau style. His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions (revealing often an obsession with death) creating a strange, fantasy world.

Böcklin is best known for his five versions of The Isle of the Dead, which partly evokes the English Cemetery, in Florence, close to his studio and where his baby daughter Maria had been buried.

Böcklin exercised an influence on Surrealist painters like Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí, and on Giorgio de Chirico.

Otto Weisert designed an Art Nouveau typeface in 1904 and named it "Arnold Böcklin" in his honor. The design uses tendrils hanging from many of the capital letters and across the top of the minuscule letters v through y.

The Böcklin typeface was later appropriated by the hippy movement and its influence can also be seen in the work of Seventies illustrators such as Roger Dean. The Stuckist artist Paul Harvey has also used the typeface in his work.

Böcklin's paintings, especially The Isle of the Dead, inspired several late-Romantic composers. Rachmaninov and Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen both composed symphonic poems after it, and in 1913 Max Reger composed a set of Four Tone Poems after Böcklin of which the third movement is The Isle of the Dead (The others are The Hermit playing the Violin, At play in the waves and Bacchanal).

Still wondering about a painting in your family collection? Contact us...it could be by Arnold Böcklin.