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The Garden of Death (Finnish: Kuoleman puutarha) (1896) is a painting by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg. Like many of Simberg’s paintings it depicts a gloomy otherworldly scene. The central figures are reminiscent of the classic black-clad Grim Reaper but paradoxically are tending to gardens; traditionally symbols of birth or renewal. The Garden of Death is one of the few paintings whose symbolism Simberg explained; typically he preferred to let viewers come to their own conclusions.
