Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

On the Tracks (Auf den Schienen) (plate 8) from the portfolio On Death, Part I, Opus XI (Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Opus XI)

Date:

(1883, published 1897)

Medium:

Etching and aquatint with chine collé

Dimensions:

plate: 10 1/2 x 7 1/2" (26.6 x 19.1 cm); sheet: 18 7/8 x 14 11/16" (48 x 37.3 cm)

Paper:

White, smooth, wove.

Publisher:

The artist

Printer:

Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig

Edition:

1st edition, 1889, printed by Ferd. Stecchini, Rome: 20; 2nd edition, 1897, printed by Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig: 15; 3rd edition, 1897, after steel-facing [this ex.]: unknown; 4th edition, date unknown, published by Verlag Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin: unknown; 5th edition, 1922, published posthumously by Verlag Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin: approx. 100; plus an unknown number in the posthumous Klinger portfolio published by J. Hartmann and Fel. Becker, Verlag Klinger-Haus, Leipzig, 1925

Credit Line:

Given anonymously

Reference:

Singer 178 IV.

MoMA Number:

270.1952

Themes:

Death, Fantasy

Techniques:

Intaglio