The Chronicler (recto and verso)
Max Klinger
1888
- Medium
- Graphite, heightened with white goauche (recto and verso), on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 30 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Drawings 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.
