Preface I, plate two from A Life
1884
Medium
Aquatint and etching, with burnishing in plate on ivory China paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.3 × 32.9 cm (6 13/16 × 13 in.); Plate: 20.9 × 35.9 cm (8 1/4 × 14 3/16 in.); Primary support: 20 × 34.9 cm (7 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.); Secondary support, approx: 78.8 × 57.5 cm (31 1/16 × 22 11/16 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
155426
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 ...