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German Artists' Writings in the XX Century - Max Klinger, 'Painting and Drawing'. Part Two: Two Separate Genres of Visual Art


Max Klinger  
Malerei und Zeichnung (Painting and Drawing)
Part Two: Two Separate Genres of Visual Art

(Review by Francesco Mazzaferro)



[Original version: January 2015 - New Version: April 2019]

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Fig. 11) The seventh edition of Drawing and painting, included in the very famous series of Insel Bücherei in 1919 in Berlin


The writing

Painting and Drawing has a peculiar story. Published in 1891, it was reprinted several times - as already mentioned – in the early twentieth century. However, going carefully through the very complete bibliography on Klinger published in 2008 [42], I discovered that the writing – although very popular - was not specifically studied by scholarship. Several monographs on Klinger were published and some of them included a few pages of the pamphlet. However, a specifically addressed analysis on the text was lacking, with one exception: a successful essay in 1917 by the poet Ferdinand Avenarius – director of Der Kunstwart, a magazine on art, music and literature - entitled "Klinger as a poet" [43] (mainly in the sense of creator) which was however still at the border between critical analysis and eulogy of artist. In that essay Klinger is cited, once again - the last time, perhaps -, as the major artist of his time.

Critical scholars have dedicated specific attention to the pamphlet only in recent decades. In Germany, one may quote (after the excellent introduction by Annaliese Hübscher to the edition published by Reclam Leipzig in 1985 [44]) an essay by Felix Billeter [45] in 1998, documenting the genesis of the writing in great philological detail (with interesting photos of the original manuscripts), and a recent contribution by Evelina Juntunen, who interprets the series of etchings entitled "The Tent" in the light of the text [46].

In the same years, two British scholars have devoted significant writings to Painting and Drawing: Marsha Morton (1995) [47], who discusses in detail the philosophical-literary reasons of the text, and Elizabeth Pendleton Streicher [48] (1996), showing great interest in describing the relationship of the work with the culture of the time and to assess the reception of its contents. In Italy Painting and Drawing has been studied by Michele Dantini in 1998, in an essay entitled "A comparison between the arts"; moreover, ample space to the text of Klinger was devoted in the catalogue of the retrospective dedicated to the artist, held in Ferrara in 1996. Dantini puts the pamphlet by Klinger in relation to other theoretical works devoted to graphic art, edited in France since the middle of the nineteenth century; this is an important opportunity to analyse the links between French and German art.

Painting and drawing: naturalism and neo-idealism

The text is a pamphlet of 46 pages, in the 1891 edition. A short and well-structured text, which can be easily read [49]. A writing that was not drafted to be a treaty, but as text supporting a specific thesis, which fits into the aesthetic discussion of those decades. It aims in particular at showing that, since the invention of printing, each artist had the possibility of going along two alternative paths for art creation: painting and drawing. This allowed artists to present themselves to the public in two versions: pictorial naturalism and graphical neo-idealism. Painting and drawing are in fact both complete art forms, which have different characteristics, merits and drawbacks, and therefore allow the artist to pursue different goals: painting celebrates the beauty of nature, while drawing allows the artist to highlight his subjective view of the world (Weltanschauung), including his most intense feelings. The discovery of printing, and therefore the possibility of reproducing and disseminating any graphical work, however, has resulted in the disappearance of any hope of returning to Gesamtkunst (i.e. total art), until new technological means are found. The dichotomy between painting and drawing is objective, because it is technological: painting is dominated by the colour, drawing by black and white. Only the future discovery of new materials eliminating this difference will lead to recovery in the future of Gesamtkunst.

The genesis of Painting and Drawing

The first references to this thesis already appeared in the Journal of Klinger, published in 1925 by Hildegard Heyne [50]. To the "Relationship between painting and drawing" are devoted four pages dated November 1883 [51]: we are in the first phase of the stay in Paris, which began in summer 1883 and was due to finish three years later [52]. As written by Michele Dantini, upon his transfer from Berlin to Paris, the young Klinger - which had already produced six themed series of etchings and prepared many drawings for the later ones – intended to extend his art creation from drawing to painting. "In the summer of 1883, when he decided to leave Berlin for Paris, it is painting that attracted him to the French capital, and in particular the possibility to freely exercise the study of the nude en plein air. The Treaty which he is about to write will not establish then drawing, etching or engraving as its exclusive scope of action; on the contrary, it will summarize experiences and beliefs, display knowledge and familiarity, and will surely re-launch Klinger as master of graphic, but only in preparation to something more." [53]

Hildegard Heyne has analysed the archive of Klinger in Naumburg and Leipzig [54] and found a notebook that includes a first draft of Painting and Drawing dating back to 1885 [55], an undated intermediate version and the handwritten text drafted in Rome in 1890, coinciding with the first edition of 1891. So the theoretical reflection of Klinger began in 1883 (Paris pages of the Journal), was crystallized in 1885, had intermediate stages and ended in Rome, where Klinger had moved because attracted by the ancient art, but above all by the desire to expand his art to sculpture [57]. Some of his most important paintings, rich in quotations from Renaissance, date back to the Roman period (The blue hour; Pietà; Crucifixion); the same applies to the series of etchings titled "Fantasia on Brahms”. The Blue Hour (a symbolist interpretation of melancholy, inspired from French impressionism) is considered by many to be the most successful of all his paintings.


The reasons for a reflection on painting and drawing

It is Marsha Morton, in her already mentioned essay [58], to explain the reasons for the reflection of Klinger. There are at least three of them. One is the justification of his artistic work, the second the state of graphic art in Germany until that moment and the third the German debate on aesthetics at his time.

First: Klinger wishes to broaden his area of interest from graphics to painting and sculpture; at the same time, he is worried that his audience (especially the admirers of his etchings) can have remained puzzled by his first attempts, starting with the frescoes that he has already performed at Villa Albers years before. The public might not have been sufficiently alerted, in his opinion, that drawing and painting have necessarily different characteristics. About this he had already written a long letter just to Albers, in February 1885. [59]

Second: the artist is concerned about the state of knowledge on graphic art in Germany (both by artists and art critics as well as by the public). In his view, the level of such knowledge is much lower than in France, England and Belgium [60]. According to Klinger, the lack of precise aesthetic criteria of differentiation between painting and drawing is one of the main reasons for the crisis of German art in 1800: he is however not convinced at all that there is a relentless decline of the creative German spirit. In fact, he is sure that something should be done to correct that mistake.

Fig. 12) The  eight edition, curated by Anneliese Hübscher and published by Reclam in 1985 in Leipzig

Here is what Klinger wrote on this [61]: “Sad to day, in the middle of this century German art made an attempt to apply the aesthetics of drawings to painting. This in turn can be held largely responsible for lack of formal awareness of the public today, which still has a certain penchant for this ‘tradition’. That in itself could only have been attempted by a nation with such a profound inclination as ours towards poeticising. [Note of the editor: Klinger assigns to drawing the same evocative features as poetry, and to painting that of representing nature].” [62] And then he continues, just below: “Light, colour and form are absolutely the only ground from which any picture, any decorative interior should spring. Giving up anything of this, amounts to giving up everything. And the ensuing works are generally nothing more than abstractions, which will fill the artist with consternation rather than admiration. It is nonsense to cry ‘If Cornelius had been able to paint…’.This is a premise that does not tally with what survives of his work. Were that the case, he would never have made cartoons, but would have composed and created quite differently. Colour has to be as carefully thought out and worked out, in advance, as form, and simply adding colour to his works would achieve as little, for instance, as the insipid colour combination of Kaulbach. Cornelius concentrated his talents on rhythm and imagination, and the undeniable power of his technique would only have been diminished by colour and modelling. I would like to propose that Cornelius’ cartoons for the Camposanto pictures [note of the editor: the cemetery of Berlin. Cornelius worked for twenty years, from 1844 to 1863, at a monumental fresco cycle there, of which, however, he was able to produce only cartoons, never starting the fresco] should be reproduced exactly as they are drawn, but on a smaller scale, possibly 40 by 60 centimeters”. [63]

Third: the era of Klinger is marked by a heated debate between naturalism and neo-idealism [64]. Klinger seems to seek for a synthesis between the two positions. He assigns to painting the task to imitate nature, and therefore takes the same position as naturalists and impressionists. He adheres instead to the reasons of neo-idealism for graphics, assigning to it the task of a deep reflection on the ultimate meaning of reality.


Naturalism and neo-idealism in Germany

It is important to know that in the aesthetic debate of the nineteenth century in Germany, as Marsha Morton explains, there was a significant gap between naturalists and realists. The former reproduced the nature telle-quelle, in its appearance, without any elements of idealization; following the teaching of Wilhelm Leibl, they focused their attention on scenes of rural and urban life, that was not immune from displaying even the ugliness of nature (but also social issues). The latter, instead, painted reality as they thought it should ideally be and therefore they idealized it (also in the sense of a politically correct representation of historical events, as in the case of the Historienmaler, the painters of history). At the same time, the neo-idealists assigned a fundamental role in the pictorial narrative to fantasy, poetry and emotion. German realism (it may seem strange to those who come from an Italian perspective) joined then neo-idealism and opposed both naturalism and impressionism. In fact, the realists in Germany defined impressionism as unimaginative and not poetic; they criticized its spiritual flattening and the absence of any deep feeling.

The pursuit of beauty and nature (naturalism) is assigned by Klinger to painting. The expression of imagination and feeling (neo-idealism) becomes instead the area of expertise of drawing, and not any longer of painting. These may seem pedantic discussions, but reflect cultural debates that were of great importance in the artistic culture of Germany, during the whole period of activity of Klinger: the contrast between form and content as the central point of the philosophy of art, and also of the same art literature. Think of the essay by the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand on "The problem of form in the fine arts" (Das Problem der Form in der Kunst bildenden) of 1893 and to the article "On the problem of the form" by Wassily Kandinsky, published in the almanac of the Blue Rider in 1912 [65].

In terms of the philosophy of art, on the one hand there were all those who Marsha Morton defines as 'scientific formalists': Herbart and Fiedler "used scientific methods to establish that aesthetics was the study of the relations of lines, planes, tones, and colours" [66]. They were opposed by all those who - starting from the tradition of Hegel - believed instead in a conceptual understanding, and not a perceptive one, of art, based on both the associative phenomenon and on empathy, and therefore on the role of symbols, mythology and fantasy [67].

The idea of Klinger to define the relationship between painting and drawing is therefore also an attempt to find a formula that allows the orderly coexistence of different schools of aesthetics in the German world, with a priority given to form and narrative for painting and contents and poetry for drawing. Marsha Morton sees this compromise also as a direct result of the thinking of Arthur Schopenhauer, Klinger’s favourite philosopher, and his vision of the world as a dialectical relationship between the will (the drawing) and the representation (painting).



The purpose of painting


In the analysis of the purposes of painting and drawing, Klinger establishes a direct link between technical instruments and aesthetic purposes. The world of painting is that of the representation of nature (the purpose) through shapes and colours (the technical vehicle) and – by these means – the pursuit of beauty and harmony. "Its purpose is to express the coloured, bodily world in an harmonious manner; even the expression of force and passion must be subordinated to this harmony." [68]

The task of the artist is that of a pure creation, regardless of content: “Generating its effect entirely of its own accord, independent of space and surroundings, the appeal of the picture derives exclusively from the deployment and mastery of its wonderfully malleable material and contents, embracing the whole of the visible world and portraying it in all its manifestations with clarity and depth.” [69] And further on: “The magic of the picture lies in its ability to embrace and to see, to explore and relate to all that is seen – forms both living or dead – and in its ability to emulate the universe with its marvellous interplay of relationships.” [70]

When discussing the essence of painting, Klinger opposes the German tradition of "intellectual painting", the so-called Gedankenmalerei. "It needs no spiritual embellishment, no combinatory devices. On the contrary, these do harm" [71]. And then he rejects the aesthetic foundations of neo-idealism: “The value of such a work of art – self-contained, as it should be – resides in the through-composition of form, colour, atmosphere and expression. It has no need of an ‘idea’ beyond these requirements. The very unusual advantages of one of the four conditions can compensate for deficiencies in the others; an idea can never do this, as long as it does not enjoy the full protection of those conditions.” [72] In many ways, Klinger expresses opinions very similar to those of Baudelaire, who criticized the German art as 'philosophical': he too believes that the painter cannot therefore be a philosopher or scholar. And he adds: “The true artist, for whom there is no direction other than his own nature and who allows ample space for expression – for the seed, the soul of the idea in the picture – will seek out subjects that he and we have been familiar with from an early age. Hence he does not oblige us to first find our feet in a new world before we can fully appreciate his work. It is the intensity with which he gives expression to aspects of the subject matter – barely even suspected by us – that makes his art what it is, not his ideas.” [73] The task of the artist is not even to provide products which are by themselves technically perfect: “But such mastery of form is by no means a matter of technique, on the contrary the latter arises from the former. A developed technique lacking any sense of form is, after all, a phenomenon we encounter every day.” [74]

Painting is therefore pure image, to some extent according to the logic of art for art: “That a real work of art seeks only to render flesh as flesh, light as light, is much too simple to be immediately understood. A perfectly painted human body in repose, with the light gliding over it, in whatever way, and which is only intended to express calm, no play od emotions of any kind, is in itself a picture, a work of art. For the artist the ‘idea’ is to develop forms appropriate to the position of the body, its relationship to the space, its colour combinations, and it is of no consequence at all to him whether this is Endymion or Peter. The idea is enough for the artist, and it is enough! But our taste nowadays first demands to know for sure if this might not be Endymion.” [75] Klinger sees with concern the attempt of modern painting to deviate from tasks exclusively related to the composition of artistic forms, and instead of devoting themselves to the promotion of messages, to the narrative of events: “Modern art is permeated by this novelistic urge, which seems completely to have swamped the natural form in repose. It takes an immense effort on the part of the artist to work his way out of the floods and to arrive at a simple, artistic view and, instead of seeking art in adventure, to seek it instead in Man and in Nature.” [76]

Therefore, painting is absolute joy. “If we consider the language of painting, it seems to us the most perfect expression of the joy of life. It loves beauty for its own sake and strives for beauty even in the ugliness of the mundane of the depths of tragedy. And when it touches us, it does so by all that is charming, by the harmony of forms and colours, even though there may be contrast. Painting is the glorification, the triumph of the world. And it has to be so.” [77]


The purpose of drawing

Beauty and joy cannot exhaust the creative experience of the artist. "To feel what he sees and to pass on what he feels is the crux of the artist’s life. But is this to say that the powerful impressions (…) with which the dark side of life inundates him, should be silenced, although he, too, seeks help in the face of these? The terrible contrast between the beauty that he seeks, sees, feels and the awfulness of existence – which often comes screaming towards him – has to give rise to pictures, just like those that come to the poet and the musician from their own experience of life. If these pictures are not to be lost, there must be another art to complement painting and sculpture, an art without the calm presence of a plastic form that would come between these pictures and the beholder as it does in painting and sculpture. This art is drawing” [78].

Thus, there is a need for an art that allows the artist to express his subjectivity. Also in this case, Klinger associated technical and aesthetic purposes: ‘black and white’, absence of colour, rough drawing summary are the devices which at the same time create space to the imagination and allow to focus art on the display of ideas. “All that has been said so far points to the most distinctive quality of drawing: the great subjectivity of the artist. It is his world and his world view (seine Welt und seine Anschauung) that he is presenting in the drawing, these are his personal responses to what is happening around him and in him. (…) It is only in the drawing that the artist can model his subjects according to his powers of expression, without having to contend with his artistic conscience. The closest comparison is with piano music and poetry.” [79] “The idea replaces that abandoned corporeality. The picture we see arises from the contrast between the real world and our ability to represent it” [80].

And the text becomes more precise. “As we have said, the drawing enjoys a freer relationship with the representable world:

-          It gives the imagination free reign to add colour to the representation;
-          It can handle forms that are not part of the main point – even the main point itself – with such freedom that again the imagination is called into play;
-          It can isolate the subject of the representation such that the imagination must create the space around it;
-          And it can utilize these means either singly or together, without the resulting drawing suffering in the slightest in terms of its artistic value or perfection.” [81]

“The stylus has a much narrower light-dark range than the palette. The latter has greater succulence and power in its dark tones and more energy in its light tones, which are heightened yet further by the contrasting effects of warm and cold tones and by colour combinations. But although the palette has the advantage of intensity and colour, the stylus makes up for this with its unlimited capacity to represent light and shade. It can portray direct light and direct darkness – sun, nighttime – whereas painting can only portray reflections and contrasting shadows. The ring, for instance, that stands for the sun in a drawing is quite sufficient to convey to us its nature and effect, just as nightmare, too, can be expressed in a few allusions, with a minimum of contours and tonal indications. This arises from the poetic nature of drawing mentioned earlier, for drawing does not so much depict the appearance of things, in the interplay of things, in the interplay of their visible forms and the ensuing relationship and effects, as convey to the beholder the ideas that are intrinsic to them” [82]

So - especially for technical reasons - drawing is the realm of the imagination, which goes beyond the earthly reality: “Yet this is not to say that Dürer engraved his work into the metal without any thought of colour. Surely no human being is capable of casting off the overall impression made on him by Nature, an impression that is inextricably bound up with colour. Indeed Dürer’s sensibilities took him into a world that was perhaps more colourful than the reality around us. At the same time, the colours of his world were so volatile, so incorporeal, so subject to the whims of the imagination that even if he saw them in his mind’s eye, the resources of external world were not sufficient to capture them. He could only convey the forms, the action, the atmosphere. For the colours that were available to him would have returned his imagination to the real world. But it was this very world that he transcended. Stylus art alone is capable of capturing these impressions, unaffected by our everyday senses. (…) An artist of this kind wants no means of representation other than light and shade. He often wants to remind us of colour, but not to translate it. He knows that actual colours would destroy the spiritual world which the art of drawing – and only drawing – has in common with the art of poetry” [83]

If painting can have no other purpose except the representation of nature, drawing is the world of symbols. “Painting represents each body as exactly that, a positive individual that exists on its own terms as a complete, rounded whole with no connections to the outside. It is always the material nature of the subject that preoccupies painting: the air – light and luminous; the sea – moist and sparkling; the flesh – soft and silky. In the drawing all these materials can take on qualities that have less to do with the eye than with poetic attitudes and combinations. Now air suggests the notion of freedom, the sea that of power, and the human being is not a person contained within his individual forms so much as a being that relates to and depends on all those external forces; above all he stands as a representative of his species.” [84]

Drawing is the world of poetic license, that it is constitutive of poetry. “And the visible corporeal world can be treated with such poetic license by virtue of the freedom e have already mentioned, which allow motifs to be portrayed as phenomena rather than bodies.” [85]

But Klinger goes beyond the poetic, to discuss the horrible (Unschönes): “Given such ideas and licence, drawing also has a different relationship with the unsightly and the abhorrent than do other arts. The visual arts [bildende Künste] are predicated on defeated unsightliness; the spoken arts [die redenden Künste] have yet to defeat unsightliness.” [86]

Drawing provides artists with the greatest freedom: “The wealth of the raw material that goes into drawings – the same material on which religions are based, for which nations annihilate each other, which we so gladly ignore, and which the human spirit therefore seeks to conceal using anything at its disposal from the naives of simple-mindedness to the most grotesque outrageousness, a material kept in constant ferment by egoism and self-sacrifice – such wealth suggests that ideas and images shower upon the artist in abundance. (…) The most powerful emotions can be compressed into the most confined of spaces, the most contradictory emotions come thick and fast. (…) They may be of epic dimensions, they may take on a dramatic intensity, they may regard us with dry irony; mere shadows, they even embrace the monstrous without causing offence.” [87]

It remains still to identify the reasons why drawing acquired the dignity of artistic genre only after the discovery of the press: “Success does not match the effort involved. Moreover, in the epoch that strove for splendour, drawings – unostentatious and barely accessible in the hands of a few individuals – had little appeal for artists. The material itself had little to do with the love of colour of those days. And in any case there were rich opportunities for artists to give vent to their imaginations on the walls of dwelling houses, churches, palaces. (…) The invention of printing altered the situation. The possibility of producing multiple copies removed the disparity between effort and success. The work no longer disappeared into a library but, in its multiplicity, could expect the same chorus of appreciation as any wall painting. The stylus – more powerful, richer in tone yet with all the delicacy of hand-drawing – offered the individual as great an opportunity to develop an independent mode of expression as any painting could do. Woodcuts and engravings – and later on etchings and lithographs – opened up to the artist’s initiative and invention a field that was infinitely varied, promising and surprising.” [88]

Why the separation between painting and drawing is absolutely required



In Klinger’s thinking, the technical factor is really central. To different techniques must correspond equivalently different artistic purposes: “every material has its own spirit (Geist) and its own poetry which derive from its appearance and its amenability, and which – in the hands of the artist – reinforce the character of the composition and are themselves irreplaceable.” [89] And again: “The direction of our discussion could be summed up as follows: a motif, which can be rendered as a drawing in a wholly artistic manner can, for aesthetic reasons, be impossible to render as a painting – insofar as the painting is to be judged as a picture." [90] 

“Our discussion so far has shown that there are fantasy pictures which cannot be expressed artistically in painting, or only to a limited extent, but that these can be represented in drawing without their artistic value being compromised. We also saw that these arise from the artist’s vie of the world (Weltanschauung) – I would even like to call it a feeling for the world (Weltgefühle) – just as the ideas of painting are born of a feeling for form.” [91]

This is one of the fundamental themes of the pamphlet. Painting and drawing have a conflicting, irreconcilable inherent logic. And to this Klinger goes back several times: “This seems to me to be the right moment for a comment regarding the different effects of similar objects portrayed by means of painting or drawing. A portrait sketch, drawn with the sparsest of means, immediately leads us to a conclusion about the character of the sitter. At the sight of a painted portrait, deploying the most meagre of resources, the quality of the form achieved with such speed turns our attention to the creative powers of the artistic.” [92]

“All masters of drawing develop in their works a conspicuous streak of irony, satire and caricature. They delight in pointing out weaknesses – anything sharp, harsh or bad. The basic tenor of almost all their work is: The world should not be like this! So they criticise with their stylus. The difference between the painter and the graphic artist could not be described more pointedly. The former creates forms, expression and colour in a purely objective manner. He does not really criticise; he prefers to beautify. This is also a critique, but not a negative one, and it tells us, ‘This is how things should be!’ or ‘This is how things are!’ For in his mind’s eye he sees a spiritual, all but physically attainable primal image of beauty that he recognises. The graphic artist, in contrast, is confronted by the eternally unfilled gap between desire and ability, between yearning and achievement, and he has no choice but to come to term, on a personal level, with a world of irreconcilable forces.” [93]


End of Part Two
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NOTES

[42] Max Klinger. Wege zur Neubewertung. Schriften des Freundeskreises Max Klinger e.V. Band 1 (Paths towards a revaluation. Writings of the circle of the association of the friends of Max Klinger. Tome 1), edited by Pavla Langer, Zita Á. Pataki and Thomas Pöpper, Leipzig, Zöllner, Plöttner Verlag, 2008

[43] Avenarius, Ferdinand, Max Klinger als Poet. Mit einem Brief Klingers Max und einem Beitrag von Hans W. Singer (Max Klinger as a poet. With a letter by Max Klinger and a contribution by Hans W. Singer). Published by the magazine Kunstwart, Edition of war, Munich, Callwey, 1918

[44] Klinger, Max - Malerei und Zeichnung: Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefe. (Painting and Drawing, Journal and Letters), edited by Annaliese Hübscher, Leipzig, Philipp Reclam jun., 1985

[45] Billeter, Felix - “Max Klingers Schrift 'Malerei und Zeichnung'. Ein Blick auf ihre Entstehungsgeschichte“ (The writing by Max Klinger ‚Painting and Drawing’, A view on the history of its genesis), in Festschrift für Christian Lenz. Von Duccio bis Beckmann, Verlag Blick in die Welt, 1998, pp. 65-83.

[46] Juntunen, Evelina – Genuin grafisches Schaffen – Malerei und Zeichnung (1891) und Klingers Zelt (A genuine graphical creation, Painting and Drawing (1891) and the Tent by Max Klinger) n “Wege zur Neubewertung“ 2008 (quoted)

[47] Morton, Marsha – “Malerei und Zeichnung”: The History and Context of Max Klinger’s Guide to the Arts, in: Zeitschrift fü Kunstgeschichte, Year 85, Vol. IV (1995), pp. 542-569. See also: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1482810?sid=21105552302593&uid=3737864&uid=2478518977&uid=2134&uid=3&uid=2&uid=60&uid=2478518987&uid=70

[48] Pendleton Streicher, Elizabeth - Max Klinger's Malerei und Zeichnung: The Critical Reception of the Prints and Their Text, in: Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 53, Symposium Papers XXXI: Imagining Modern German Culture: 1889–1910 (1996), pp. 228-249. See: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/42622157?sid=21105582739343&uid=3737864&uid=70&uid=2134&uid=4&uid=2

[49] Ms Pendleton Streicher wrote instead that the text style, in her opinion, is too informal, typical of conversations, almost absently written and somewhat repetitive. She attributed the reason to the fact that Klinger had begun to fill the text starting from the pages of the diary of 1883 and the letters of the following years. She adds "In its aphoristic style, Malerei und Zeichnung is rooted in a long tradition of writing in German aesthetics and philosophy, which culminated in his own day in the publications of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nonetheless, Malerei und Zeichnung is simply and symmetrically organized. "Pendleton Streicher, Elizabeth- Max Klinger's Malerei und Zeichnung: (quoted), p. 233

[50] Klinger, Max – Gedanken und Bilder aus der Werkstatt des werdenden Meisters (Thoughts and pictures from the workshop of the master in his education years), edited by H Heyne, Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang, 1925, p. 115.

[51] Klinger, Max – Gedanken und Bilder(quoted), pp.16-20.

[52] Marsha Morton also cites a letter of February 23, 1883, therefore before the stay in Paris. See Morton, Marsha - "Malerei und Zeichnung" (quoted), p. 543.
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[53] Dantini Michele – Un paragone tra le arti (A comparison between arts), in: Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing, edited by Michele Dantini with an essay by Giorgio de Chirico, Milan, Nike, 1988, p. 129. The quote is on page 53.

[54] For a description of the Klinger fund and the files on Painting and Drawing maintained in the archive of Lipsia, see

[55] The correspondence contains a three-page letter to Albers (for whose villa in Berlin Klinger composed an important cycle of frescoes) devoted entirely to the subject of the relationship between painting and drawing, dated Paris, February 24, 1885. See: Briefe von Max Klinger aus den Jahren 1874 bis 1919 (quoted), pages 64-66. In the diary of Klinger there are references to "painting and drawing," March 22, 1885. See: Klinger, Max - Gedanken und Bilder ... (quoted), p. 38.

[56] Klinger, Max – Gedanken und Bilder(quoted), pp.103-104.

[57] Pastor, Willy –Max Klinger, with a drawing in the cover page by the author, Berlin, Amsler & Ruthardt, 1918 The chapter on the stay in Rome is from page 120 to page 150.

[58] Morton, Marsha – “Malerei und Zeichnung”(quoted)

[59] See: Briefe von Max Klinger aus den Jahren 1874 bis 1919 (quoted), page 64-66.

[60] Here is what Klinger writes in this regard, during the visit to the Triennial exhibition of Paris in 1883: "Here I would like to refer to an almost disappeared technique, which unfortunately is no longer applied in Germany. It is painting-engraving. It is different, here [note of the editor: in Paris] as well as in London. Each show brings rich contributions of this branch of art. With the indifference of our artists, publishers and of the public (two out of three do not have any idea), a lot should happen before etching may have the same fortune with us. See French, British, Belgian publications which are not intended for mass consumption. If there are illustrations in those publications (it happens to be the case in a publication every two), they are etchings.” Klinger, Max - Gedanken und Bilder ... (quoted), p. 29

[61] All English translations are from Fiona Elliot and Christopher Croft. Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing, Birmingham, Ikon, 2005.

[62] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 27)

[63] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 27)

[64] See the essay of Max Deri on Naturalism, idealism and Expressionism, published in Leipzig in 1920 (https://archive.org/details/naturalismusidea00deri)

[65] For an English version, see: The Blaue Reiter Almanac , by Klaus Lankheit, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, MFA Publications, 2005

[66] Morton, Marsha – “Malerei und Zeichnung”(quoted), p. 556

[67] Morton, Marsha – “Malerei und Zeichnung”(quoted), p. 556

[68] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.13)

[69] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.13)

[70] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.13)

[71] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.14

[72] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.17)

[73] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.17)

[74] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.17)

[75] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.18)

[76] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (pp 18-19)

[77] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.19)

[78] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p.19)

[79] Klinger, Max – Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 23)

[80] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 21)

[81] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (pp. 20-21)

[82] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 24)

[83] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 11) 

[84] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 21)

[85] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 21)

[86] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 21)

[87] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 22)

[88] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (pp. 30-31)

[89] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 12)

[90] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 13)

[91] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 23)

[92] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (pp. 28-29)

[93] Klinger, Max - Painting and drawing … (quoted) (p. 29)

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