Max Klinger (1857-1920)
"Ein Leben" ["A Life"]
The Heinrich Stinnes Portfolio
etching and aquatint on paper
nineteen trial proofs, 1883-1884
most signed, dated, and inscribed
Provenance:
Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne, most with violet collector's stamp (Lugt 1376a)
Otto Dix (1891-1969), Dresden
The above print is Plate 4 from Klinger's cycle "Ein Leben (Opus VIII)":
"Verführung" ["Temptation"]
etching and aquatint on paper
42 x 22 cm
trial proof of state III (before all inscriptions)
catalogue raisonne Singer 130 III
Heinrich Stinnes collector's stamp lower left
