Klinger, Max (1857 Leipzig - 1920 Großjena)

Lot 2228 limit € 20

Aquatint, bookplate for Hildegard Heyne, female nude, striving towards heaven, inscribed on the plate, unsigned (see comparative piece in the Leipzig Museum of City History), slight signs of age, depiction approx. 12 x 8 cm, sheet approx. 19 x 15 cm, 1874/ 75 Studies at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe with Karl Gussow and Ludwig Des Coudres, 1875 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, from 1879 resident in Brussels, from 1881 in Berlin, intensive occupation with graphic works, including cycles Intermezzi and Amor and Psyche, stays in Paris, Rome and Munich, from 1895 in Leipzig, 1903 purchase of a vineyard in Großjena near Naumburg, in addition to paintings and graphics, important representatives of polychrome sculpture