Max Klinger in Vienna

Video Transcript

"So Max Klinger he was not only a sculpture, but a painter and also a print maker at that time in Vienna. He was a symbolist painter. So this sculpture of him the scripture or the knowlandon from the first year of the 20th century. Is not only a human movement, but as well as a human existence. As want to hide, want to protect himself from the outside world. What is really important about the symbolist that for example his style and painting was not so touched by the theory of colors like Monk. Like Edward Monk's work because he painted in the style of naturalist painter. It was the message that he displayed in this style. But on this sculpture, we can see that he had a big influence on later sculptors like Kat Kulish. In a way he was not only a symbolist but a expressionist sculptor. Made him connected to other Viennese artist. That he made the Beethoven sculpture to the Beethoven freeze. Which made by print it was rather a symbol of sensationist sculpture of him."