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Max Klinger

The Swan Prince (Der Schwanenprinz), Plate 7, 1915

Description

Maker

  • Max Klinger, b. 1857, German
  • Amsler and Ruthardt, publisher

Title

The Swan Prince (Der Schwanenprinz), Plate 7

Year

1915

Medium

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Place

Berlin

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2002.74.1.7

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

Under a mottled sky near a large body of water, a nude woman flees the lustful pursuit of a monstrous creature who is half man, half swan. This disturbing scene is an episode in a series of prints that form a loose, dreamlike narrative. Deeply influenced by Goya’s use of etching and aquatint, Klinger was also drawn to Goya’s eerily surreal subjects, and adopted his custom of working in series, or “cycles,” to use Klinger’s term. Klinger’s unsettling aquatints, admired by artists including Käthe Kollwitz, lay bare his preoccupation with sexuality, love, death, and gender conflict, reflecting his conviction that prints should show the “dark side of life.”

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