Homage (Huldigung)

1878/1880

Max Klinger

Artist, German, 1857 - 1920

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.9 x 32.9 cm (6 1/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.8 x 53.1 cm (13 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.82.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Singer 1909, no. 118, State i/v (proof)

Associated Artworks

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Place (Ort)

Max Klinger

1880

Yearnings (Wünsche)

Max Klinger

1878

Cupid (Amor)

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

lower center below image in graphite: - Huldigung des Meeres. (homage from the sea); lower center below plate mark in graphite: hommage du mer (homage from the sea); lower left below plate mark in graphite: "Un Gant" Oeuvre 6 No. 6 (written over a 7); upper right above image in graphite: No.; upper right above image lightly scratched in plate with graphite overdrawing: VI.

Wikidata ID

Q75396728

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