Max KlingerGerman, 1857–1920Zweite Zukunft
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
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About the work
The German painter, sculptor, and printmaker Max Klinger created dream worlds filled with dark, evocative symbolism. Eve and the Future, a strange cycle of etchings, treats the biblical subject of the Fall by envisioning three future consequences of Eve’s sin. The Second Future represents the time after Eve has taken the forbidden fruit and discovered her nakedness—and, in Klinger’s view, her sexuality. Here Klinger gives us a satyrlike creature holding a spear atop a primordial snake swimming in a wasteland. Is there any distance between this predatory, prehistoric human and animals? It is truly a fall from grace. Aquatint enables Klinger to achieve an otherworldly, almost hallucinatory atmosphere for his fantastical creatures.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- Accession number
- P.93.27.2
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- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain
Meanwhile, in the life of Max Klinger
The whole life1878
First paintings shown at the Academy exhibition
He presents his paintings for the first time at the 52nd exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin.
April 1879
Teacher: Emile Wauters
1879–1880
Trips to Brussels and Munich
In 1879 he spends some time in Brussels and the following year in Munich.
April 1879 – 1880 · Residence
Brussels
1881 · Residence
Berlin
1881
His own studio and a friendship with Stauffer-Bern
He moves to Berlin, where he has his own studio; here begins his short friendship with the Swiss painter, etcher and sculptor Karl Stauffer-Bern.
