An die Schönheit, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil

Max Klinger

1898–1910

An die Schönheit, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil by Max Klinger

Medium

Engraving and etching

Dimensions

Plate: 16 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (41.2 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 21 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (55.7 × 40.4 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952

Accession Number

52.586.2(12)

Tags

Human FiguresLandscapes

About the Artist

Max Klinger · 18571920

Max Klinger, born on February 18, 1857, in Leipzig to a wealthy family, emerged as one of Germany's most innovative artists across painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphics. Demonstrating early talent, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1874 as a pupil of Karl Gussow, following his teacher to the Berlin Academy upon Gussow's appointment as director, and graduated in 1877 ...

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