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Max Klinger

The Swan Prince (Der Schwanenprinz), Plate 7

Description

Maker

Max Klinger (German, b. 1857
d. 1920)

Title

The Swan Prince (Der Schwanenprinz), Plate 7

Year

1915

Medium

  • Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Materials

etching

Geography

Place Made: Berlin

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2002.74.1.7

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

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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Max Klinger (German, b. 1857
d. 1920)
Amsler and Ruthardt, publisher
The Swan Prince (Der Schwanenprinz), Plate 7, 1915
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2002.74.1.7

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