1880
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1880 ink by Max Klinger, a Impressionism work, depicting Sheet Music, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see twelve black-and-white prints in a slim portfolio—ghostly faces, floating gloves, a woman asleep on a train, a hand clutching a tiny house. Klinger made these while he was still a student. He called them “intermezzi,” meaning little pauses between bigger works. The prints feel like dreams you half-remember: nothing fits together, yet each image sticks in your mind. If you like how these etchings mix the ordinary with the strange, look up the technique: etching.
Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of…
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