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Description
Max Klinger
(Leipzig 1857 – 1920 Großjena)
Set of 2 etchings
1| Moonlit night
etching on paper 36.2 x 26.4 cm
signed and numbered on the plate Max Klinger IV
2| Simplicius among the soldiers
etching on paper 23.5 x 40.5 cm
signed and numbered on the plate Max Klinger IX
ESTIMATE €50 – €100
STARTING PRICE €50
Max Klinger was a pioneering German sculptor, painter and printmaker of the Symbolist movement. His contemporaries referred to him as the ‘German Michelangelo’, and his fantastical, surreal imagery had a decisive influence on the art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Related artists and terms: Gertrud Bock, Viennese Modernism, Vienna Secession, German Artists’ Association, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Käthe Kollwitz, Expressionism, Surrealism.
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