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Max Klinger
Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil, the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. He is best known today for his many prints, particu…
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culture · German artist (1857–1920) · sculptor · painter · university teacher · writer · printmaker · volunteer serving one year · graphic artist · exlibrist · visual artist · etcher · also Max Klinger, Klinger
Born 18 February 1857 · Died 5 July 1920 · Q44252
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2022· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: A folder containing 13 prints by Max Klinger, including
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2012· 1 entry
Bates College: Max Klinger (German, 1857 – 1920), The Intermezzi Portfolio
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1922· 1 entry
However, much of the remainder of their lives was spent in litigation with Klinger's daughter, Desirée Klinger over the estate
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1920· 1 entry
Died 1920-07-05.
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1911· 1 entry
Klinger left Asenijeff, when her mental health begin to show signs of deteriorating, for an 18-year-old model, Gertrud Bock (1893–1932), who he ultimately married a few months before his death in 1920
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1910· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1910).
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1903· 1 entry
Moved away from Leipzig and bought a vineyard in Großjena [Gross Jena,], near Naumburg, Germany, where he settled in his later years
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1902· 1 entry
And Max Klinger's sculpture was brought to Vienna as the centerpiece
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1891· 1 entry
And subsequently reissued a number of times
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1889· 2 entries
Staying until 1893, studying the Italian masters, where the 15th century artists and works from antiquity are said to have been something of a revelation to him
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Les XX (The Twenty) invited Klinger to exhibit his work in their annual winter exhibition that year in Brussels
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1885· 1 entry
And later rejected from major exhibitions in Berlin 1887 and 1888
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1881· 1 entry
Published two sets of etchings, including Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove, which was an immediate success and established his reputation
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1879· 1 entry
And the following year he spent time in Munich
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1876· 1 entry
Studied at Prussian Academy of Arts (1875–1876).
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1875· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (1874–1875).
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1874· 1 entry
Where he was a pupil of Karl (or Carl) Gussow
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-02-18.
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