Recto: Phantasie und Künstler (Imagination and the Artist); Verso: Studie zu Phantasie und Künstler (Study for Imagination and the Artists)

Max Klinger

1873 · Recto: Pen and black ink, black chalk and pencil; Verso: Pencil and pen and black ink · Drawings and Prints

Recto: Phantasie und Künstler (Imagination and the Artist); Verso: Studie zu Phantasie und Künstler (Study for Imagination and the Artists) — Max Klinger

Phantasie und Künstler is a design for an invitation to a party at the Karlsruhe Akademie where Klinger was a student in 1872-73. An inventive and exuberant work, the sketch on the verso shows an alternate design for the composition and provides insight into Klinger's workiing method. The subject is the combination of art and Eros that pervades the artist's oeuvre and for which he was famous.

Artist: Max Klinger
Date: 1873
Medium: Recto: Pen and black ink, black chalk and pencil; Verso: Pencil and pen and black ink
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020