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4. Max Klinger (1857-1920) Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
Etching and aquatint, 1881, from Intermezzi (plate XII), 223 x 424 mm., Singer 63 iii/iii. Fine impression on chine-appliqué with large, full margins; a water stain in the lower right corner of the support sheet, far from the image. Klinger is often synonymous with “weird.” Note that bearded Death rides on a coffin with animal legs and is attached (or not) to the winged unicycle occupied by Love, and that the Hereafter, a draped mélange of animal and pre-human heads and topped with feathers, moves on hundreds of human hands and fingers. The whole, including the almost-believable landscape, is etched with Germanic precision and a certain rigidity, characteristic of the artist, that merely adds to its strangeness. |
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