Cleveland Museum of Art
Night, from On Death, Part I, Opus XI (Nacht, Vom Tode, Erster Teil, Opus XI)
Max Klinger
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- etching and aquatint
- Culture
- Germany, late 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In On Death, Part One, a series of ten etchings, the Symbolist Klinger envisioned the ephemeral nature of life and the suddenness of death, themes that prompted one contemporary critic to call the portfolio a modern "Dance of Death." In Night, the first in the series, a man sits on a bench in an enclosed garden. A moonbeam breaks through the clouds over the sea, and on the path to the right is a lily with a fluttering butterfly. The landscape seems an extension of the figure’s melancholy thoughts, a landscape of the mind.
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