In the Park, from A Love (Opus X)

Max Klinger

1887 · Pen and black ink and black chalk heightened with white bodycolor · Drawings and Prints

This large-scale sheet showing an amorous couple is titled Im Park. It is the preliminary drawing for an etching of the same title and scale from the print series Eine Liebe: Opus X (A Love). The series is about a passionate affair that ends in tragedy and is likely based on an episode from Klinger’s own life. In this scene, the couple is locked in a tight embrace, the man tightly holding the woman against his own body as he leans against the trunk of a tree. One can see Klinger's mind at work as he plays with the placement of the leg and foot. Many of the small details differ from the final etching.

Artist

Max Klinger

Date

1887

Medium

Pen and black ink and black chalk heightened with white bodycolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and Ian Woodner Family Collection and Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Logan Funds, 2019