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| Artist's Name: | Max Klinger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred medium: | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| birth year: | 1857 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | DE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Naumburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max Klinger - Profile |
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| Max Klinger was born in 1857 and died in 1920. Klinger is considered one of the last great "artist prince" and is ranked among the most important German artists of 1900. He begins his studies in 1874 at the Grand Ducal Baden art school in Karlsruhe. However, he changed already in 1875 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he studied under Karl Gussow. His studies, he concludes with the title 'exceptional' and the silver medal. At this point, it can be an artist was by Adolph Menzel, Klinger focuses particularly his woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and drawings, his vignettes, head and end pieces and frames. Later in 1879 he is in Brussels, a student of Emile Charles Wauters. In the ensuing years, he deals in Berlin already intense Ovid with the illustration to follow Cupid and Psyche, rescue victims, interludes, Eve, and the future and the four landscapes. In addition, follow other etchings that take the numbered Beititel Opus. Following his time in Berlin, the artist went to Paris, where he replaced Julius Albers his first big contract over fourteen murals for the mansion. The same year, Klinger moves into his own studio in Paris and devoted himself this time, the Louvre, studying the works of Goya, Daumier and Puvis de Chavannes. In the following years, Klinger moves to numerous educational trips, he traveled to Italy, Brussels, Paris, Greece, London and Munich. At the same time his interest in the plastic rises rapidly. In his Paris period Klinger creates one of his major works, the Judgement of Paris, this painting he completed in 1887 in Berlin. Then be turned over again to new etchings, including buy one of Brahms's death and the fantasies. In his Leipzig years from 1895 to 1906 the artist has, however much the etching needle, but almost exclusively sculptural works. This is how the half-Salome and Cassandra, followed by Christ on Olympus, and many other sculptures. Max Klinger's Gesamtkunstwerk more and more for the unification of all arts, according to the total work of art in the sculpture, painting, architecture, shape, color and space have equal share. His idea of the total work of art is always the basis for Klinger's artistic engagement with the literature, sculpture, painting and drawing and his interest in music. In his extensive work, he also emphasizes the importance of the graphic arts and promotes the artistic dialogue of his time. Numerous awards (including Knight of the Order Pour le mérite, Honorary Member of the Stockholm Academy) do not only Max Klinger's success but also indicative of its role as a pioneer of modern art in Germany. The work, stylistically between Art Nouveau and Symbolism and we have now especially with its graphics traumbildnerischen cycles and known in his lifetime much discussed sculptures, such as the "Beethoven". (Http://www.klinger-max.de/) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
important exhibitions from Max Klinger |
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WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Max KlingerSurreale Welten11/07/2008 - 30/12/2012René Magritte Max Ernst Paul Klee Odilon Redon Hans Bellmer Wols Salvador Dalí ...
Berlin 100 Jahre alt ist sie, Georg Kolbes berühmteste Plastik die Tänzerin. Auf der Frühjahrsausstellung der Berliner Secession 1912 wurde sie erstmals öffentlich präsentiert und entzückte alle Welt. Noch im gleichen Jahr kaufte die Nationalgalerie Kolbes Werk,26/02/2012 - 28/05/2012Georg Kolbe Alexander Archipenko Edgar Degas Rudolf Belling Camille Claudel Ernesto de Fiori Auguste Rodin ...
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artist's websiteexternal Link to the website of the artist or his gallery/institution: Max Klinger |
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Galleries representing
Bernd Dürr GmbH |
Collections representing
Ateneum Art Museum |
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