Max Klinger

Ferrara Arte in collaboration with the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts organizes the most important exhibition ever in Italy about Max Klinger, a founder of the Simbolism.

The interest of Ferrara for the work of the famous German artist, born on 1857 and dead in 1920, is not by chance. Indeed Klinger was, together with Arnold Böcklin, one of the maestros who led Giorgio de Chirico toward the Metaphysics, which had an important center in Ferrara in the second half of the 1910s.

Paintings and sculptures, drawings and engravings: more than 400 works for reconstructing the whole path of this father of the symbolic art, considered the "the most important engraver of the XX century".

From the Museum of Fine Art of Leipzig arrives the entire engraving opus, a wide selection of drawings, paintings and sculptures that, for the first time, leave the Germany. Other masterworks come from other German museums while from Florence (the Villa Romana that Klinger bought and in which he lived during his often stays in Italy) comes the beautiful Mermaid, chosen as logo for the exhibition.

Max Klinger loved very much music and musicians: he played piano and was friend of Max Reger and Brahms, for whom he made the Brahmsphantasie etchings. This is why Ferrara Musica has organized a series of concerts dedicated to the relationship between Klinger and music, two of which will be led by Claudio Abbado with the Berlinen Philarmoniker and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

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Presentazioni

Roberto Soffritti - Sindaco di Ferrara - Paolo Siconolfi
XI Presidente della Provincia di Ferrara
XIII Claudio Abbado - Presidente Onorario di Ferrara Musica
XV Andrea Buzzoni - Direttore Civiche Gallerie d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea del Comune di Ferrara
XVII Herwig Guratzsch - Direttore del Museum der bildenden
Knste di Lipsia
XIX Joachim Burmeister - Direttore di Villa Romana, Firenze

Saggi e schede

3 Max Klinger, l'Italia e l'altrove dei sogni e dei suoni
Beatrice Buscaroli Fabbri

49 Klinger e i "tedeschi-romani" Marisa Volpi
79 Max Klinger pittore e scultore Renate Hartleb
123 Schede dei dipinti e delle sculture Renate Hartleb
137 L'artista figurativo come poeta: la grafica di Max Klinger
Andreas Stolzenburg
169 Schede delle incisioni in serie Susanne Petri
257 Schede dei fogli singoli di incisioni Susanne Petri
269 Schede dei disegni Karl-Heinz Mehnert
293 "Tutte le arti sono simili e parlano la stessa lingua..."
Max Klinger e la musica Karl-Heinz Mehnert
309 Biografia Dietulf Sander
325 Bibliografia

Appendice documentaria

329 "Pittura e disegno" Max Klinger