The Chronicler (recto and verso), Max Klinger, 1888, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and DrawingsDr
The Chronicler (recto and verso), Max Klinger, 1888, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and DrawingsDrawings 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, The Crucifixion, 1888/1891. In an almost autobiographical reflection, it depicts the scribe who unemotionally documents the world’s greatest tragedy that rages around him. Harold Joachim Purchase FundSize: 432 x 300 mmMedium: Graphite, heightened with white goauche (recto and verso), on tan wove paperhttps://www.artic.edu/artworks/113932/ -- source link
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