Additional title
Cardboard to the Chemnitz City Hall Picture: Arbeit=Wohlstand=Schönheit (Work=Prosperity=Beauty)
Artist
Max Klinger 1857 – 1920
About the work
The Graphic Arts Collection contains 28 cardboard fragments and study drawings for the only surviving mural by the artist. It was commissioned in 1911 by the textile entrepreneur Herman Vogel on the occasion of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Chemnitz. The wall painting entitled «Arbeit=Wohlstand=Schönheit» (Work=Prosperity=Beauty) was completed in 1918. It shows nine muses and a group of gods from Greek mythology in the foreground. A drawing by the artist and bodybuilder Lionel Strongfort served as the model for the monumental male nude. Strongfort, actually Max Unger, also appeared with his program in Leipzig's Krystallpalast (Crystal Palace) and posed for Max Klinger.
Year
1912
Material / Technique
Pastel chalks, charcoal on green-brown paper
Dimensions of the object
119 x 68 cm
Signature
unbezeichnet
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 5644 a
Access
1995 donation by Erdmuthe Ostmann-von Dewitz
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Hans-Christian Schink
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
Year
1912
Material / Technique
Pastel chalks, charcoal on green-brown paper
Dimensions of the object
119 x 68 cm
Signature
unbezeichnet
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 5644 a
Access
1995 donation by Erdmuthe Ostmann-von Dewitz
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Hans-Christian Schink
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
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