KLINGER, MAX (1857 )

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KLINGER, MAX (1857 ) , German painter, etcher and sculptor, was born at Plagwitz near

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

. He attended the classes at the Carlsruhe art school in 1874, and went in the following year to Berlin, where in 1878 he created a sensation at the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

exhibition with two

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of pen-and-ink drawingsthe "

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

upon the Theme of Christ " and " Fantasies upon the Finding of a

Glove

GLOVE (O. Eng. glof, perhaps connected with Gothic lofa, the palm of the hand)

." The daring originality of these imaginative and eccentric works caused an outburst of indignation, and the artist was voted insane; nevertheless the "

Glove

GLOVE (O. Eng. glof, perhaps connected with Gothic lofa, the palm of the hand)

" series was bought by the Berlin National Gallery. His painting of " The 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 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," " Eve and the Future," "A Life," and "Of Death"; but in his use of the needle he does not aim at the technical excellence of the

great

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 modern truth, but at grim impressiveness not without a

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

of mysticism. His " Pietk" at the Dresden Gallery, the frescoes at the

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

University, and the " Christ in

Olympus

OLYMPUS

," at the Modern Gallery in Vienna, are characteristic examples of his art. The Leipzig Museum contains his sculptured "Salome" and " Cassandra." In sculpture he favours the use of varicoloured materials in the manner of the Greek

chryselephantine

CHRYSELEPHANTINE (Gr. xpvouOr, gold, and XEgas, ivory)

sculpture. His "Beethoven" is a notable instance of his

work

WORK

in this direction.

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