Third Future, plate six from Eve and the Future
Max Klinger
1880
Medium
Etching on light gray wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
Dimensions
Plate: 29 × 20.1 cm (11 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 37.3 × 26.9 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
153964
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 ...