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Max Klinger

Leipzig 1857 – 1920 Großjena bei Naumburg

”Brahms-Fantasie. Opus XII”. 1894

Forty-one engravings, etchings and stone drawings to compositions by Johannes Brahms. Album: 37,3 × 44,2 cm (14 ⅝ × 17 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Klinger. ”Brahms-Fantasie. Opus XII”. 1894.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,670

 

- 8,890

Sold for:

11,875 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2022

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 01.06.2022

Information

Forty-one engravings, etchings and stone drawings to compositions by Johannes Brahms. Album: 37,3 × 44,2 cm (14 ⅝ × 17 ⅜ in.). On the half title lower right in black pen signed and dedicated: Herrn E. Platky in Erinnerung an ein gemeinsames [...] Jahr bei der 1. Comp. 107r unter Hptm v. Bause M. Klinger. Catalogue raisonné: Singer 183-229. Complete series with 27 sheets. Overall 41 illustrations in copper engraving, aquatint, mezzotint, etching and lithograph (partly coloured). From the edition of 150 copies. In the original portfolio with gold embossed title. Copperplate etching at W. Felsing, Berlin, print of lithographs at C.G. Röder, Leipzig, edited from Amsler & Ruthardt Verlag, Berlin.

The series is offered in agreement with the heirs of the art collection of Hedwig Platky, née Hirsch..

Eugen Platky, Leipzig / Collection Fritz Tögel (thence by descent to the present owner)

Max Klinger. Meistergraphik und Zeichnungen vom Jugendstil zum Surrealismus. Stendal, Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, 2015, cat. no. VI.1-5, ill. p. 84-87

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