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Max Klinger

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Painted sketch of workers on a half-built house, with a woman carrying a basket up a wooden scaffold beside a brick wall.

Workers at a House Construction

1889

Painting of two nude women, one seated on a dark rock and one kneeling below, with trees and sky behind them.

Bathers

1912

Painting of a skeleton standing on a sandbank at a calm lake, with dark trees on the left and a cloudy sky.

„Der pinkelnde Tod“

1880

Oil portrait of a bearded man with a receding hairline and intense gaze against a dark background.

Herrenbildnis

Weiblicher Studienkopf

Oil self-portrait of a red-bearded man in wire-rimmed glasses against a warm ochre background, painted in loose brushstrokes.

Selbstbildnis

1891

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a hunched seated man in loose drapery on tan paper, with a handwritten date.

The Chronicler (recto and verso)

April 5, 1888 (recto); April 6, 1888 (verso)

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

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 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

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 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

Pen drawing of the winged horse Pegasus with a young rider on its back, with German handwritten notes below.

Pegasus and the Young Bellephron

late 19th-early 20th century

Pen and ink title page design for Brahms songs with a flute player, a reclining woman, a flowering tree and decorative letter

Design for a Title Page for Sheet Music

late 19th-early 20th century

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

1879

Etching of a nude woman with flowing hair flying through clouds while gripping two taut lines.

Intermezzo (Erstes Intermezzo) (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 6)

1879

Etching of a riverside landscape with trees, poplars and reeds, framed by an ornate architectural border with floral panel be

Narcissus und Echo II (Rettungen Ovidischer Opfer, Opus II, Blatt 8)

1879

Etching of a bear gazing up at a nude figure perched in flowering trees, with a river and hills behind.

Bär und Elfe (Intermezzi, Opus IV, Blatt 1)

1881

Etching of a seated nude figure before a cliff and waterfalls in a mountain valley, by Max Klinger.

Mondnacht (Intermezzi, Opus IV, Blatt 4)

1881