‘MAX KLINGER; XII (AMOR TOD UND JENSEITS)’

– Love, death and beyond. Amor seated nude on a vehicle, followed by figures representing death. A skeleton sits on the back of a fantastic vehicle, resembling a coffin with legs. He chases Cupid who navigates from a bicycle seat in front, bow in hand. A buffalo like figure carries a ghostly figure. The image might represent a disturbing concept of the Beyond, or simply a figure from Klinger’s own imagination.

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Description

Medium: Line and aquatint etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 63 x 45 cm (24.8 x 17.72 inch). Image size: 23.3 x 37 cm. (9.17 x 14.57 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

AMOR-DEATH-SKELETON-GHOST | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate XII from ‘Intermezzi, Opus IV’. Published by Theodor Stoefer, Nuremberg, 1881. Ref: Singer 63 III.

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 63 III.

Biography engraver: Max Klinger (1857-1920) was a German symbolist painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer. He was a skilled and imaginative artist and is considered by many a major link between the symbolist and metaphysical and surrealist movements.