Max KlingerDeutschland, 1857–1920Moeder opgebaard met haar kind op de borst
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Een jonge vrouw is opgebaard met bloemen in haar haren. Naast haar hoofdkussen een brandende kaars. Bovenop haar borst zit een klein naakt kind. Op de achtergrond, tussen de zuilen door, zijn bomen en is zee zichtbaar.
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Im Leben von Max Klinger
Das ganze Leben1896
Brahms dedicates the “Four Serious Songs” to Klinger
Johannes Brahms dedicates his “Four Serious Songs” (Opus 121) to Klinger a year before the composer’s death; besides Brahms, Klinger, an accomplished pianist, counts the composer Max Reger among his friends.
1897
Professor in Leipzig and a member of the Vienna Secession
He becomes a professor at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig and a corresponding member of the newly founded Vienna Secession.
1898
Meets Elsa Asenijeff
He meets the writer and poet Elsa Asenijeff, who becomes his model, muse and girlfriend for fifteen years; they have a daughter in 1900 but never marry.
spring 1902
Klinger’s Beethoven at the Vienna Secession
His “Beethoven”, a sculpture of bronze, ivory, alabaster and several marbles, is the centrepiece of the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition, where Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze is visible in an adjoining room and Gustav Mahler is persuaded to transcribe music from the Ninth Symphony for trumpets. The exhibition causes a scandal: the sculpture is dismissed as kitsch and some are offended by a nude Beethoven, while Rodin is reported to have walked past it without comment, later saying it had nothing to do with sculpture.
1907
An exhibition of his entire oeuvre in Leipzig
For the first time all of Klinger’s works are exhibited together at the Leipzig art museum; the same year he visits Paris and Spain again.
1911
Leaves Asenijeff for Gertrud Bock
He leaves Asenijeff, when her mental health begins to deteriorate, for an 18-year-old model, Gertrud Bock (1893–1932), whom he ultimately marries a few months before his death.
