‘MAX KLINGER; VI (BERGSTURZ)’

– Romantic landscape featuring a landslide with centaurs and sublime vistas.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 45 x 62.9 cm (17.72 x 24.76 inch). Image size: 29.5 x 42.9 cm. (11.61 x 16.89 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.

LANDSLIDE, CENTAURS, ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE, INTERMEZZI, MAX KLINGER | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 57.

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.