Going Under (from the series A Life)
1884, 4th edition 1898
Medium
Etching and aquatint; final state of six
Dimensions
Plate: 10 7/8 × 9 in. (27.6 × 22.8 cm) Sheet: 23 3/4 × 17 5/16 in. (60.4 × 44 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
63.572.2(13)
Tags
About the Artist
Max Klinger · 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 ...