"You can get the picture of your dreams as you want. It had to look so quiet that you would be scared when you knock on the door," Böcklin wrote to his customers of the first edition of the Island of the Dead. Three years later, Böcklin produced the more popular third edition of the picture for his gallery owner, Fritz Gurlitt, who was also responsible for the game. In 1936, the painting was acquired by Adolf Hitler and hung in Obersalzberg and Berghof in the New Reich Chancellery. Ironically, the fourth version was destroyed during a bombing raid in World War II. In the primitive mounds of Ancient Egypt, the Elysion of Ancient Greece, the Garden of Eden in the Bible or the legendary Avalon of King Arthur, there is a mysterious island of the dead and later boat trips.