The Chronicler (recto and verso)

1888·Graphite, heightened with white goauche (recto and verso), on tan wove paper·43.2 × 30 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

<p>Drawings by the Symbolist artist Max Klinger are very rare. This intimate drawing was completed over April 5-6, 1888, while the artist was staying in Rome on the Via Claudia near the Colisseum. This sensitive figure drawing helped to prepare Klinger's most important painting of those years, <em> The Crucifixion,</em> 1888/1891. In an almost autobiographical reflection, it depicts the scribe who unemotionally documents the world's greatest tragedy that rages around him.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1888
Medium: Graphite, heightened with white goauche (recto and verso), on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 43.2 × 30 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Max Klinger

Artist

Max Klinger

Sculpture

Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil, the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. He is best known today for his many prints, particularly a series entitled Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove and his monumental sculptural installation in homage to Beethoven at the Vienna Secession in 1902.

Leipzig, Germany

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