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KLINGER, MAX (1857– )

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

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