First Future, plate 2 from the series “Eve and the Future: Opus III”

Artist: Max Klinger, German, 1857–1920
Printer: Friedrich Felsing, German, active c.1835–c.1899
Publisher: Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, Germany, active 1860–1921
Date: 1879–80, printed 1882
Material: Etching with aquatint
published in: Berlin, Berlin state, Germany, Europe
Classification: Prints
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: image: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm)
plate: 15 5/8 x 10 11/16 in. (39.7 x 27.1 cm)
sheet: 28 7/16 x 21 5/16 in. (72.2 x 54.1 cm)
Credit Line: Funds given by Fielding Lewis Holmes through the 1989 Art Enrichment Fund
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 53:1990.2

NOTES

Max Klinger's formidable tiger blocks the way through a narrow rocky gorge. This print is part of a series entitled "Eve and the Future" which juxtaposes three depictions of the biblical Eve's original sin with three "futures," or imagined visions of her sin's consequences. This is the first future, showing the bleakness of Eve's life when there is no way back to paradise. Klinger's evocative imagery made him an important precursor of the German Expressionist movement.

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