4054 - Max Klinger, "Time and Fame"

Max Klinger, "Time and Fame" A rocky fantasy landscape with pine forests; in the foreground, Medusa stands in armour, pressing a fallen angel to the ground with her foot, from "On Death, Part Two, Opus XI, Plate 11”, etching with subtle plate tone, inscribed in lead beneath the image on the right: “To his dear friend Peter M. Klinger 15 Dec. (18)92, presumably a proof; some damage; image dimensions approx. 36.3 x 26 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 55 x 41 cm. Artist information: prominent German printmaker, painter and sculptor (1857, Leipzig - 1920, Großjena near Naumburg/Saale), Sunday pupil at the Bauer Drawing School in Leipzig, studied from 1874 under Karl Gussow and Ludwig Des Coudres at the Karlsruhe Academy, in 1875 moved with Gussow to the Berlin Academy; in 1876 received his academy certificate with the distinction ‘Exceptional’ and a silver medal, worked in Brussels in 1879, where he was a pupil of Emile Charles Wauters; settled in Munich in 1880; had a studio in Berlin from 1881; was friends with Karl Stauffer-Bern and knew Alfred Lichtwark; spent periods studying and working in Paris and Rome, In 1892, he was a founding member of the ‘Group of XI’; from 1893, he had a studio in Leipzig; in 1897, he was appointed professor at the Leipzig Academy; he was a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession; in 1901, a founding member and, from 1906, chairman of the Villa Romana Society; in 1903, he acquired the vineyard cottage in Großjena near Naumburg; Source: Thieme-Becker, Wikipedia and the internet.