Max Klinger's Radierungen zu Apulejus' Märchen Amor und Psyche, Opus V a+b
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Overall: 17 11/16 x 12 3/8 x 3/8 in. (45 x 31.5 x 1 cm)
Classification
Portfolios
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Littman, 1989
Accession Number
1989.1133.1(1–24)
Tags
PsycheTrees
About the Artist
Max Klinger|Theo. Stroeser|Lucius Madaurensis Apuleius · 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 ...