Dedication (from the series A Life)

Dedication (from the series A Life) by Wilhelm Felsing|Max Klinger

Medium

Etching and engraving; third edition; state four of six

Dimensions

Plate: 17 7/8 × 13 11/16 in. (45.4 × 34.7 cm) Sheet: 21 15/16 in. × 16 in. (55.7 × 40.7 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

52.586.1(1)

Tags

BirdsMale NudesFemale Nudes

Art Historical Context

**Dedication (from the series *A Life*)** *Max Klinger, with Wilhelm Felsing, 1887–1903* Etching and engraving; third edition, state four of six. Metropolitan Museum of Art, York. Visitors to our Prints gallery will encounter Max Klinger's *Dedication*, a captivating plate from his monumental series *A Life* (*Ein Leben*), created between 1887 and 1903. This Symbolist masterpiece, printed by Wilhelm Felsing, explores the human journey through fantastical allegories blending myth, psychology, and the subconscious. Klinger, a pioneer of the fin-de-siècle Secession movements, drew from Roman...

About the Artist

Wilhelm Felsing|Max Klinger (German| ) · 1857 | 1920 |

German, Leipzig 1857–1920 Großjena|

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