110 - Max Klinger

Max Klinger Badendes Mädchen, sich im Wasser spiegelnd Circa 1903 Bronze. Height 39.6 cm. Mounted on black-green marble base (14 x 12 x 13,8 cm). Monogrammed 'MK' on front of tree trunk. Marked on the lower right side with the foundry mark "Akt. Ges. vorm. H. Gladenbeck u. Sohn", and on the lower left side with another foundry mark "Akt-Ges: v. H. Gladenbeck & Sohn". - Fine, dark brownish golden patina. – Traces of oxidation on head and back. Provenance Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions Cf. Leipzig 1970 (Museum der bildenden Künste), Max Klinger 1857-1920, cat. no. 4; Hildesheim 1984 (Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum), Max Klinger. Wege zum Gesamtkunstwerk, cat. no. 4; Chemnitz 2007 (Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz), Max Klinger in Chemnitz. Mit einem Bestandskatalog der Werke, cat.no. 77; Bielefeld 2013 (Kunsthalle), Schönheit und Geheimnis. Der deutsche Symbolismus. Die andere Moderne, p. 106, ill. 45 Literature Cf. Gerhard Winkler, Max Klinger, Leipzig 1984, no. 171; Max Klinger. Bestandskatalog der Bildwerke, Gemälde und Zeichnungen im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, publ. Herwig Guratsch, Leipzig 1995, p. 56, A 7-A 7a, A 7b The bronze sculpture is a reduced version of Max Klinger’s almost life-size marble sculpture "Badendes Mädchen, sich im Wasser spiegelnd" (Bathing Girl Reflected in the Water), completed in 1898, which has been in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig since 1899. With the artist’s consent, the Berlin foundry H. Gladenbeck & Sohn produced smaller bronze casts of this sculpture in four agreed sizes from 1903 onwards. Thanks to these reproductions, the “Bather” is one of Klinger’s best-known works.