‘MAX KLINGER; VIII (SIMPLICIUS AM GRAB ?)’

– A young boy (Simplicius) kneels beside a grave in a wooded landscape, mourning the hermit; a symbolic and contemplative scene of death and solitude.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 44.9 x 62.9 cm (17.68 x 24.76 inch). Image size: 26.5 x 33.7 cm. (10.43 x 13.27 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.

SIMPLICIUS AT THE HERMIT’S GRAVE, MAX KLINGER, LITERARY SUBJECT, DEATH, FOREST, INTERMEZZI OPUS VIII, ETCHING | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate VIII from ‘Intermezzi, Opus IV’. Published by Theodor Stoefer, Nuremberg, 1881.

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 59.

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.