Antique Master Print-SIMPLICIUS-WRITING-LESSON-HERMIT-FOREST-Klinger-1881

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

Sheet size: 44.9 x 62.8 cm (17.68 x 24.72 inch). Image size: 26.6 x 33.5 cm. (10.47 x 13.19 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 WRITING LESSON, MAX KLINGER, HERMIT, BOY, FOREST, LITERARY SUBJECT, INTERMEZZI OPUS IV, ETCHING | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 58.

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.