‘MAX KLINGER; III (VERVOLGTER CENTAUR)’

– A chased centaur by riders on horseback in an open field near the coast.

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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.

GEFALLENER REITER, MAX KLINGER, FALLEN RIDER, DEAD HORSE, DEATH, FOREST, INTERMEZZI OPUS IV, ETCHING | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate III from ‘Intermezzi, Opus IV’. Published by Theodor Stoefer, Nuremberg, 1881. Ref: Singer 54.

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 54.

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.