Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Overall: 24 3/16 x 17 11/16 x 13/16 in. (61.5 x 45 x 2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of A. G. Raskin, 1963
Accession Number
63.572.1(1–7)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
Max Klinger’s * und die Zukunft* (8) is a etching that blends biblical allusion Symbolist imagination. as the third work in his “Rad.-Werk” series and printed by Wilhelm Felsing, the print presents the figure of Eve amid a stark landscape of hills and trees, surrounded by male and female nudes and haunting corpses. The of life, death, the promise of an future gives the composition its unsettling power. Klinger, a leading figure in late-nineteenth-century German Symbolism, used etching’s fine line and tonal range to explore psychological and philosophical themes. Here, the traditional story of...
About the Artist
Max Klinger|Max Klinger|Wilhelm Felsing · 1857–1920
Max Klinger, born on February 18, 1857, in Leipzig to a wealthy family, emerged as one of Germany's most innovative artists across painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphics. Demonstrating early talent, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1874 as a pupil of Karl Gussow, following his teacher to the Berlin Academy upon Gussow's appointment as director, and graduated in 1877 ...