Max KlingerGerman, 1857–1920Galatea
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Not on view at present
Where is “Galatea” now? Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked November 11, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2018.25a, b
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In the catalog
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- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In the life of Max Klinger
The whole life1904
A contract for the Brahms monument in Hamburg
He signs a contract for a monument to Brahms for the Hamburg Musikhalle and travels to Italy again to buy marble.
22 November 1904
His mother dies
His mother, Auguste Friederike Eleonore Klinger, née Richter, dies.
1905
Villa Romana: a prize for young artists
A founder of the Villa Romana Prize for young German artists, he buys the villa in Florence as a study centre and converts it with Georg Hirzel; the first laureate, Gustav Klimt, declines the honour and passes it on to Maximilian Kurzweil. Other accounts say the prize was founded in 1906.
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.
