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Currently not on display

Max Klinger

Leipzig, 1857 - Großjena, nr Naumburg, 1920

<On Death, II >: Dead Mother

Date 1898-1910
Materials and Techniques engraving
Size(cm) 38.4 x 29.7 (image); 45.5 x 34.7 (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 (monogram) 89; In plate, margin lower left: O.FELSING, BERLIN IMPR.; Lower right: MAX KLINGER.
Standard ref. Singer 239 V
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1982-0076

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 1998, cat. no. 42-o
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. 88-3

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. 146.
1981
Max Klinger (exh. cat.). 5 - 29 March 1981. Sapporo, Museum für moderne Kunst, Hokkaido, 1981, cat. no. 56
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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