Max Klinger

The Intermezzi Print Cycle

Oct. 31 – Dec. 7, 2004 

Project Room 

Organized by Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University; and Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam

Widely recognized as one of the more central figures in Germany at the turn of the 20th century, Symbolist artist Max Klinger (1857–1920) was especially celebrated for his print cycles. This exhibition focuses on one of Klinger's central print cycles, Intermezzi, as well as an important self-portrait of the artist. Intermezzi, (1881) is not an integrated cycle of plates, but rather an assemblage of diverse themes, including four plates of centaurs in landscapes, and four devoted to the baroque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (1669), by H. J. C. von Grimmelshausen. Highly naturalistic and beautifully rendered, even Klinger’s landscape prints that are inhabited by mythic creatures are convincingly real.