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Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts Presents Painting by German Artist Max Klinger |
| March 8th, 2010 12:17:04 pm |
| | Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts Presents Painting by German Artist Max Klinger | | | 
A man and a woman take a look at the painting 'Der pinkelden Tod' ('Peeing death') by German artist Max Klinger (1857-1920) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. The museum purchased the painting from 1880 with public and private support. The Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts has the most comprehensive collection of Klinger artworks. EPA/JAN WOITAS.
| LEIPZIG.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig presented the painting 'Der pinkelden Tod' ('Peeing death') by German artist Max Klinger (1857-1920). The museum purchased the painting on 1880 with public and private support. The Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts has the most comprehensive collection of Klinger artworks. Max Klinger was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor and printmaker.
Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right.
His best known work is a series of ten etchings entitled Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove (printed 1881). These pictures were based on images which came to Klinger in dreams after finding a glove at an ice-skating rink. In the leitmotivic device of a glove—belonging to a woman whose face we never see—Klinger anticipated the research of Freud and Kraft-Ebbing on fetish objects. In this case, the glove becomes a symbol for the artist's romantic yearnings, finding itself, in each plate, in different dramatic situations, and performing the role that we might expect the figure of the beloved herself to fulfil. Semioticians have also seen in the symbol of the glove an example of a sliding signifier, or signifier without signified—in this case, the identity of the woman which Klinger is careful to conceal. The plates suggest various psychological states or existential crises faced by the artist protagonist (who bears a striking resemblance to the young Klinger).
Klinger traveled extensively around the art centres of Europe for years before returning to Leipzig in 1893. From 1897 he mostly concentrated on sculpture; his marble statue of Beethoven was an integral part of the Vienna Secession exhibit of 1902.
Klinger was cited by many artists (notably Giorgio de Chirico) as being a major link between the Symbolist movement of the 19th century and the start of the metaphysical and Surrealist movements of the 20th century. Asteroid 22369 Klinger is named in his honor.
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