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Die Chaussee (The Highway), from Vier Landschaften Opus VII (Four Landscapes Opus VII)

Artist/Maker (German, 1857–1920)
Date1883
MediumEtching and aquatint
DimensionsImage: 18 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (47.9 × 34 cm)
Plate: 20 7/8 × 14 9/16 in. (53 × 37 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/4 × 19 5/8 in. (65.4 × 49.9 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Fund
PortfolioVier Landschaften Opus VII
Object number1978.6
Status
Not on view
More Information
A virtuoso printmaker, Klinger devoted a significant portion of his artistic output to producing a number of graphic series that portray dramatic moralizing narratives through inventive, perplexing, and often unsettling imagery. His approach to landscape proves to be no less compelling. In this view of a highway in the German countryside, Klinger transcribes the landscape in mottled, monochromatic tones that leach nature of its life force and turn the sky leaden. Although similar in form and subject to the landscapes of his Impressionist contemporaries, Klinger’s rendition is utterly divergent in its embrace of the uncanny and the ominous.
Exhibition History
'La Reverie esthetique': Symbolist Works on Paper
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 29, 1988 - May 22, 1988 )
Between Fact and Fantasy: The Artistic Imagination in Print
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 17, 2014 - June 22, 2014 )
Collections
  • European