Wünsche (Yearnings) from Ein Handschuh (A Glove). Cyclus von zehn Compositionen radirt. Rad. Opus VI, Plate III. First edition
Medium
Etching, drypoint and aquatint on chine collé; first edition
Dimensions
Overall: 18 5/16 x 26 in. (46.5 x 66 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2009
Accession Number
2009.47
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Wünsche (Year)**, Plate III from Max Klinger's seminal 1881 series *Ein HandschuhA Glove): Cyclus von zehn Composition radirt* (Opus VI), invites visitors into the dreamlike world of German Symbolism. Klinger, a pioneering figure in the movement, crafted this first-edition etching to explore themes of longing and the subconscious. The series narrates a man's obsessive visions sparked by a lost glove in the snow, blending eroticism, fantasy, and mortality in ten intricate plates. Printed with assistance from F. Felsing, this work captures Plate III's evocative scene of human figures amid tree...
About the Artist
F. Felsing|Max Klinger (German|German) · |1857 – |1920
|German, Leipzig 1857–1920 Großjena