Max Klinger
Kuss (im Park) / Kiss (In the Park)

ArtistGerman, 1857–1920
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Kuss (im Park) / Kiss (In the Park)
  • from the series Eine Liebe, Opus X (A Love, Opus X)
Date1880–1887, published 1903, second (deluxe) issue
PlaceGermany
MediumEtching with engraving and aquatint on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 18 x 11 in. (45.7 x 27.9 cm)
Sheet (folded): 24 x 17 1/2 in. (61 x 44.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund, Ralph S. O'Connor, Benjamin and Renée Danziger in honor of Barry Walker, an anonymous lady in honor of Isabell Smith Herzstein, the estate of Alvin S. Romansky, the Rowan Foundation for Prints and Drawings, Edward Oppenheimer, Jr. in honor of Wynne Phelan, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Allen
Object number95.52.4
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ProvenanceGeorg Hirzel Collection, Leipzig, Germany; [Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, by 1995]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition History"Acid on Metal: The Art of Etching and Aquatint," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 September - 27 November 2011.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below image, in plate, right bottom edge: M.K. 18 Ids. 1903
Recto: Signed in graphite, below image, in plate, left bottom edge: Felsing
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below image, in plate, right bottom edge: M.K. 18 Ids. 1903
Recto: Signed in graphite, below image, in plate, left bottom edge: Felsing
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Catalogue raisonnéSinger 160, v/VII

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