Description Medium: Line and aquatint etching on wove (vellin) paper. Sheet size: 44.9 x 62.9 cm (17.68 x 24.76 inch). Image size: 26.5 x 33.7 cm. (10.43 x 13.27 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. SIMPLICIUS AT THE HERMIT’S GRAVE, MAX KLINGER, LITERARY SUBJECT, DEATH, FOREST, INTERMEZZI OPUS VIII, ETCHING | MAP-KLINGER BACKGROUND INFORMATION Plate VIII from ‘Intermezzi, Opus IV’. Published by Theodor Stoefer, Nuremberg, 1881. Reference: Singer 1909, no. 59. Biography engraver: Max Klinger (1857-1920) was a German symbolist painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer. He was a skilled and imaginative artist and is considered by many a major link between the symbolist and metaphysical and surrealist movements.
