Plague (Pest), from the series Death, Part II (Vom Tode Zweiter Teil)
Max Klinger
1903 (published 1904)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 16 15/16 × 13 1/4 in. (43 × 33.7 cm) Sheet: 21 5/16 × 15 11/16 in. (54.1 × 39.9 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(5)
Tags
BirdsHospitalsIllnessMenWomen
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 ...