id:			113835
accession number:	1933.126.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.126.1
updated:		2020-11-04 19:48:45.362000

Night, from On Death, Part I, Opus XI (Nacht, Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Opus XI), 1889. Max Klinger (German, 1857-1920). Etching and aquatint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1933.126.1

title:				Night, from On Death, Part I, Opus XI (Nacht, Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Opus XI)
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creation date:			1889
creation date earliest:		1889
creation date latest:		1889
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	Germany, late 19th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Singer 171

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CREATORS

* Max Klinger (German, 1857-1920)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Symbolist Prints
	opening date:   1991-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Symbolist Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

	title:		Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
	opening date:   2004-08-15T00:00:00
	<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century".  No exhibition catalogue.

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In On Death, Part One, a series of ten etchings, the Symbolist Klinger envisioned the ephemeral nature of life and the suddenness of death, themes that prompted one contemporary critic to call the portfolio a modern "Dance of Death." In Night, the first in the series, a man sits on a bench in an enclosed garden. A moonbeam breaks through the clouds over the sea, and on the path to the right is a lily with a fluttering butterfly. The landscape seems an extension of the figure’s melancholy thoughts,
a landscape of the mind.
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