Where The Wheelchairs Roam Jul 20, 2008
Among the collection's treasures are etchings from late in Goya's career and works by Max Klinger, Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet and printmaker Piranesi. A film program includes work by Bunuel and others. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
The golden touch May 24, 2008
Beethoven Frieze (1902) was painted to showcase a monumental sculpture of Beethoven by Max Klinger. It is less pullulating than a Makart, but has fatally pompous Wagnerian elements of Nibelungenlied. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Sage against the dying of the light Jan 25, 2007
This statement, engraved on a tomb in a print by German Symbolist Max Klinger, encapsulates the message of the UI Museum of Art's latest exhibition, Dark Matters: Max Klinger's Print Cycle On Death and Other Ruminations, on display through April 15. The show, which includes approximately 30 pieces from the museum's works on paper collection, is intended to showcase not just the morose but the way in which death and darkness define and validate life and light. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Descendants of Nazi doctor lose fight over compensation for looted art Dec 22, 2006
Lawyers representing the family of Gustav Schuster whose treasures included paintings by Max Liebermann, the Impressionist, Adrian Ludwig Richter, the Romantic and Max Klinger, the Symbolist had advanced a bizarre argument in court. Dr Schuster was head of the Chemnitz women s clinic during the war and a senior member of the National Socialist Doctors Association. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection Apr 19, 2006
Major Symbolist artists represented in the exhibition include Jean Delville, Ferdinand Khnopff, Max Klinger, and Odilon Redon. "Symbolist imagesboth verbal and pictorialare often beautiful, poignant, and mysterious, because their meaning or meanings are purposefully indirect, multifaceted, and intentionally evocative," explained Cantor Arts Center Chief Curator Bernard Barryte, who selected works for the exhibition from the collection of Kirk Long. Narratives, as in Max Klinger's... (AbsoluteArts.com)
