Prints, Drawings, and Photographs The Plague 1903 Max Klinger, German, 1857 - 1920 Engraving and drypoint Currently not on view 1980-51-1 Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1980 |
LabelKlinger's print is one of twelve in the series On Death, Part II, which treats death symbolically. A gust of wind has forced open a window of the hospital ward, allowing Death to fly into the room in the guise of a flock of menacing black crows. In vain a nurse tries to fend them off with her rosary as patients gesture in despair and clasp their hands in prayer. |
