Max Klinger's Prints: Major Survey in Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo's civic museum presents what is likely the most comprehensive exhibition of Max Klinger's graphic work ever held in Italy. The show brings together eleven of the fourteen print cycles the German artist created using etching, aquatint, and burin. Curated by Diego Galizzi and Patrizia Foglia, the exhibition follows previous shows on Goya and Chagall at the same venue. Foglia notes that Klinger proposed a fusion between realism and idealism, mediating the two positions through his art. The Leipzig-born artist, who also worked as a poet, painter, and musician, is known for his exploration of memory, influenced by Freud and the fin-de-siècle climate. His style, rooted in Dürer's tradition, emphasizes drawing as an autonomous art form. The series "Un amore" addresses social issues in a "classic romantic" style, while "I drammi" condenses six tragic news events into single plates that convey narrative over time. The exhibition is held in Bagnacavallo's Piazza Nuova, an elliptical square that echoes the dreamlike imagery of Klinger's work.