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Max Klinger

1857 - 1920

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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 graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil (Youth Style), the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. He is best known today for his many prints, particularly a series entitled Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove and his monumental sculptural installation in homage to Beethoven at the Vienna Secession in 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Klinger is the 440th most popular painter (down from 399th in 2019), the 1,220th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,096th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Painter.

Max Klinger is most famous for his illustrations of the Oresteia, a trilogy of plays by Aeschylus.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Max Klinger ranks 440 out of 2,023. Before him are Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, James Tissot, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Hannah Höch, Orcagna, and Heinz Linge. After him are Marie Laurencin, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Sigmar Polke, Hubert Robert, Piero Manzoni, and Lucian Freud.

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Among people born in 1857, Max Klinger ranks 41. Before him are Cécile Chaminade, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, George Gissing, Christian Michelsen, 12th Dalai Lama, and Otto von Below. After him are Wilhelm Johannsen, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Eugène Atget, Williamina Fleming, Vladimir Bekhterev, and Mikhail Alekseyev. Among people deceased in 1920, Max Klinger ranks 28. Before him are Benito Pérez Galdós, Eleanor H. Porter, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Venustiano Carranza, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Nectarios of Aegina. After him are Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abraham Kuyper, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Otto Gross, Mikhail Eisenstein, and S. Ansky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Klinger ranks 1,220 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Schlegel (1804), Heinz Linge (1913), Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Karl von Bülow (1846), and Adolf Eugen Fick (1829). After him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Christian Wirth (1885), Ivan Rebroff (1931), Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), Sigmar Polke (1941), and Ludwig Guttmann (1899).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Max Klinger ranks 46. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Michael Wolgemut (1434), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), and Heinz Linge (1913). After him are Sigmar Polke (1941), Lucian Freud (1922), Heinrich Füger (1751), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751).

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