Eva from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)
Medium
Etching; eighth state of eight
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (21 x 24.5 cm) Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 5/8 in. (44 x 60 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of A. G. Raskin, 1963
Accession Number
63.572.1(2)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In Max Klinger's *Eva from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)*, created in 1898, the German Symbolist artist presents a hauntingly ethereal female nude amid stylized trees, evoking biblical paradise and futuristic visions. Part of Klinger's ambitious etching series *Eva und die Zukunft*Eve and the Future"), this plate explores themes of womanhood, nature, and destiny at the fin-de-siècle, a time when Symbolism blended myth, eroticism, and psychological depth to challenge realism. Klinger's works bridged Romanticism and the emerging Jugendstil, influencing later Expressionists with their dream...
About the Artist
Max Klinger|Max Klinger|Wilhelm Felsing · 1857–1920
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 ...