In the 1890s, when the artist first traveled to Europe, the Symbolist poets and painters were all the rage and so too was their collective quest for the truths behind surface reality ...Eventually, however, he returned to the Symbolist mode; in both “The Sleepers” and “The Genius of ...
The east German city of Leipzig is hoping a major exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of Max Klinger’s death will help raise awareness of his work. The pioneer of Symbolism was the best-known German sculptor of his generation, but today he is little known outside his home country ... He was creating installations before the concept existed ... .