Max Klinger (February 18, 1857 -- July 5, 1920) was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer.
Klinger
was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the
etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative
engraver in his own right. He began creating sculptures in the early
1880s.From 1883-1893 he lived in Rome, and became increasingly
influenced by the Italian Renaissance and antiquity.
His best
known work is a series of ten etchings entitled Paraphrases about the
Finding of a Glove (printed 1881). These pictures were based on images
which came to Klinger in dreams after finding a glove at an ice-skating
rink. In the leitmotivic device of a glove—belonging to a woman whose
face we never see—Klinger anticipated the research of Freud and
Krafft-Ebing on fetish objects. In this case, the glove becomes a symbol
for the artist's romantic yearnings, finding itself, in each plate, in
different dramatic situations, and performing the role that we might
expect the figure of the beloved herself to fulfil. Semioticians have
also seen in the symbol of the glove an example of a sliding signifier,
or signifier without signified—in this case, the identity of the woman
which Klinger is careful to conceal. The plates suggest various
psychological states or existential crises faced by the artist
protagonist (who bears a striking resemblance to the young Klinger).
Klinger
traveled extensively around the art centres of Europe for years before
returning to Leipzig in 1893. From 1897 he mostly concentrated on
sculpture; his marble statue of Beethoven was an integral part of the
Vienna Secession exhibit of 1902.
Klinger was cited by many
artists (notably Giorgio de Chirico) as being a major link between the
Symbolist movement of the 19th century and the start of the metaphysical
and Surrealist movements of the 20th century. Asteroid 22369 Klinger is
named in his honor.
(from Wikipedia)
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Santiago Caruso (Born in Quilmes, Argentina - 1982) is a symbolist and surreal artist, of an avant-garde
concept but rooted in the nineteenth century' s
aesthetic. His work stands out both for the vigor
of its poetry as well as for its technique.
Music; Brendan Perry - Medusa
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