Yearnings (Wünsche)

1878/1880

Max Klinger

Artist, German, 1857 - 1920

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint in black on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.5 x 13.9 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 33.7 x 15.8 cm (13 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.82.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Singer 1909, no. 115, State i-ii/vi

Associated Artworks

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Place (Ort)

Max Klinger

1880

Cupid (Amor)

Max Klinger

1878

Anxieties (Ängste)

Max Klinger

1878

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carus Gallery, New York; private collection; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1909

  • Singer, Hans Wolfgang. Max Klingers Radierungen, Stiche und Steindrucke. Berlin, 1909 (republished 1978 by Martin Gordon, New York).

1977

  • Varnedoe, J. Kirk T. with Elizabeth Streicher. Graphic Works of Max Klinger. New York, 1977: 80-81 (Postscript to A Glove).

1984

  • Carey, Frances and Antony Griffiths. The Print in Germany 1880-1933: The Age of Expressionism. London and New York, 1984: 44.

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: III.; probably by later hand, lower verso in graphite: (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q75396716

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