Paar im Grase–Umarmung in einer Landschaft (A Couple on the Grass–An Embrace in a Landscape)
1879
Medium
Pen and brown ink and pale brown wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (12.9 × 17 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Accession Number
2021.16.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the intimate drawing *Paar im Grase–Umarmung in einer Landschaft* (A Couple the Grass–An Embrace in a Landscape), German artist Max Klinger captures a tender moment of lovers entwined amid a lush natural setting. Created in 1879, this-scale work (just 5 1/16 × 6 11/16 in.) exemplifieser's early mastery of pen and brown ink with pale brown wash, a technique that builds subtle depth and atmospheric softness through delicate hatching and fluid washes. Klinger, a pivotal figure in late 19th-century Symbolism and graphic art, often explored themes of human emotion, fantasy, and the interplay be...
About the Artist
Max Klinger · 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 ...