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Currently not on display

Max Klinger

Leipzig, 1857 - Großjena, nr Naumburg, 1920

<On Death, II >: Philosopher

Date 1898-1910
Materials and Techniques etching and aquatint
Size(cm) 49.5 x 33.6 (image); 49.5 x 33.6 (plate)
State Printed by Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig and Wilhelm Felsing, Berlin and published by Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin. No.94 of the 1st edition (100 copies)
Inscriptions Inscribed in image lower left: MK 10 (monogram); Margin lower left (blind): GIESECKE & DEVRIENT, LEIPZIG IMPR.; Lower right (blind): MAX KLINGER.
Standard ref. Singer 232
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1982-0069

Provenance

Carl Otto Beyer, Leipzig; C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf; Purchased by the NMWA, 1982.

Exhibition History

1988
Max Klinger: Werke aus dem Besitz des Museums der bildenden Künste Leipzig und des Nationalmuseums für Westliche Kunst, Tokyo (Max Klinger: from Leipzig Art Museum and National Museum of Western Art), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 April 1988 - 19 June 1988, cat. no. 42-c
1997
Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 88-1

Bibliography

1977
Max Klinger (exh. cat.). Gaehtgens, Thomas W.; Pauseback, Michael, eds. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 10 October - 11 November 1976; Universitätskunstsammlung Göttingen, 14 January - 27 February 1977; Kunsthalle Tübingen, 26 March - 24 April 1977; Museum Wiesbaden, 14 June -31 July 1977. [1977], cat. no. 139.
1984
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 17 (1982), 1984, Arikawa, Haruo. On the New Acquisitions 1982. pp. 8-11, Catalogue of the New Acquisition 1982. pp. 48-55, repr.

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