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Max Klinger

295 works

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Sepia etching of a lone woman in a long dress standing at the edge of a wide, windswept shore under a cloudy sky.

Abandoned, plate five from A Life

1884

Etching of a haloed robed figure standing in a dark cave among seated and kneeling women, with a distant landscape glimpsed a

Christ and the Women Sinners, plate thirteen from A Life

1884

Etching of a skeletal figure raising a cross above a crowd of anguished faces, with smoke and a distant cross behind.

Third Future, plate six from Eve and the Future

1880

Etching of a man's face rising from stormy sea under a churning cloudy sky, mouth open in alarm.

Downfall, plate twelve from A Life

1884

Etching in brown tones of a flying female figure reaching toward a globe under a crescent moon, with ornate border and exhibi

Card for the Gurlitt Exhibition: Imagination and the Child Artist

1881

Monochrome etching of a cypress-covered island between rocky cliffs, with a small boat carrying a white-robed figure across c

The Isle of the Dead

1890

Etching of a woman with long hair seated on a bed, looking toward a window with a distant landscape in a dim room.

Awakening, plate eight from A Love

1887, signed and dated in 1903

Etching of a woman in a shadowy dream, with ghostly faces and a reaching hand emerging behind her.

Dreams, plate three from A Life

1884

Etching of a nude man reaching toward a pale spectral figure, with a reclining body and rocky landscape below.

Philosopher, plate three from One Death, Part II

c. 1889

Etching of nude figures on a rocky cliff above the sea, with winged creatures and the dedication To Arnold Böcklin.

Dedication, plate one from A Love

1887

Etching of fashionable figures in top hats and long dresses gathered on a terrace beneath a glass-walled arcade with a balust

Place, plate one from A Glove

1881

Etching of a man bending to pick up a glove in a park, with walking women, a dog, and a pavilion behind a railing.

A Glove: Action

1881

Line drawing of a horse pulling a shell-like chariot toward a rising sun with radiating rays and ornamental scrolls.

Triumph, plate five from A Glove

1881

Etched seascape of waves breaking over rounded stones, with a rock and slender forms at left under a cloudy sky.

Homage, plate six from A Glove

1881

Etching of a sleeper in bed beneath a huge looming hand on the wall, with a crescent moon and a reaching arm from the left.

Fears, plate seven from A Glove

1881

Etching of an empty interior with drapery, a pedestal table with a twisted stem, flower garlands at the sides, and a receding

Repose

1881

Etching of a pale winged figure flying from a window, arm stretched back, above a cluster of flowers on a dark ground.

Abduction, plate nine from A Glove

1881

Etching of a winged Cupid reclining beside a bow and arrow, with a rose branch hanging from the upper right.

Cupid, plate ten from A Glove

1881

Title page of Max Klinger's etching cycle Ein Handschuh, with a small etched vignette of a woman beside an animal.

Cover to A Glove

1881

Etching of a sleeping figure beside a candle, with tall blossoming branches and a dark hilly landscape behind.

Wishes, plate three from A Glove

1881

Etching of a pale nude figure on a dark rocky ledge beside a tree stump, looking upward into a shadowed void.

Back into Nothingness, plate fifteen from A Life

1884

Etching of a bear looking up at a nude woman perched in a blossoming tree above a lake and hills.

Bear and Fairy

Etching of two centaurs fighting on a snowy mountain slope, with a fallen figure and a dark cloudy sky behind.

Battling Centaurs

Etching of a bearded old man at a wooden table in a forest hut with a child writing beside him, a stream nearby.

Simpliciuksen kirjoituspöytä

Etching of a kneeling young man in ragged clothing beside a grave mound, with a hut, cabbages and trees in a forest clearing.

Simplicius at the Grave of the Hermit

Monochrome print of a young man's head and shoulders framed by dark shapes, with foliage and light behind him.

Memory

1894

Printed portrait of an elderly bearded man with his fist pressed to his cheek, rendered in muted grey tones on cream paper.

Self-Portrait with Fist to Face

1918

Etching of a wounded centaur rearing on a grassy plain while nude riders with spears pursue it toward a distant town.

Pursued Centaur

1879

Etching of a rocky landslide slope with centaur figures among boulders above a river valley and distant hills.

Landslide

Etching of a pale cliff and waterfalls with a seated nude figure on a rock in the foreground and figures by the river.

Moonlit Night

Etching of a marble bust in a rose garland on a pedestal, framed by pilasters, with bathers by a pond and a distant temple.

Evocation (Titelblatt / Erweiterungsblatt) (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 1a)

1880

Titelblatt (Malerische Zueignung / Anrufung) (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 1 [1b])

1879