‘MAX KLINGER; II (AM MEER)’

– A solitary woman stands near the waves at the edge of the sea, with a vast, serene horizon.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 62.3 x 45 cm (24.53 x 17.72 inch). Image size: 40.9 x 23.4 cm. (16.1 x 9.21 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.

SEA, ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE, SOLITUDE, MAX KLINGER, WAVES | MAP-KLINGER

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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

Reference: Singer 1909, no. 52.

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.