Details

Title

Yearnings (Wünsche), from the Glove (Ein Handschuh) series

Artist/Maker

Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

Date

1880–81, published 1924

Medium

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

19 x 12 1/2 inches plate

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

1977.7 C

On View

Currently not on view

The glove, having been taken home, sprouts desires like a flowering tree. The protagonist’s/Klinger’s despairing pose, face buried in hands, suggests that not all of these yearnings are happy and pleasurable but also produce discomfort and perhaps fear.

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