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MAX KLINGER (1857– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 847 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAX

KLINGER (1857– )  , German painter, etcher and sculptor, was born at Plagwitz near
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Leipzig . He attended the classes at the Carlsruhe
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art school in 1874, and went in the following
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year to Berlin, where in 1878 he created a sensation at the Academy
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exhibition with two series of pen-and-ink drawings—the " Series upon the Theme of Christ " and " Fantasies upon the Finding of a Glove." The daring originality of these imaginative and eccentric
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works caused an outburst of indignation, and the artist was voted insane; nevertheless the " Glove " series was bought by the Berlin
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National Gallery . His
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painting of " The
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Judgment of Paris " caused a similar storm of indignant protest in 1887, owing to its rejection of all conventional attributes and the naive directness of the conception . His vivid and somewhat morbid
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imagination, with its leaning towards the gruesome and disagreeable, and the Goyaesque turn of his mind, found their best expression in his "cycles" of etchings: "Deliverances of Sacrificial Victims told in Ovid," " A Brahms Phantasy," "
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Eve and the Future," "A
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Life," and "Of
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Death"; but in his use of the needle he does not aim at the technical excellence of the
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great masters; it supplies him merely with means of expressing his ideas . After 1886 Klinger devoted himself more exclusively to painting and sculpture . In his painting he aims neither at classic beauty nor
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modern truth, but at grim impressiveness not without a touch of mysticism . His " Pietk" at the
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Dresden Gallery, the frescoes at the Leipzig University, and the " Christ in
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Olympus," at the Modern Gallery in Vienna, are characteristic examples of his art . The Leipzig Museum contains his sculptured "
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Salome" and "
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Cassandra." In sculpture he favours the use of varicoloured materials in the manner of the Greek chryselephantine sculpture . His "Beethoven" is a notable instance of his
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work in this direction .

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