Max Klinger, February 18, 1857–July 4, 1920, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor. Born in Leipzig, he studied at the art school in Karlsruhe and the academy in Berlin, where his teacher was Karl Gussow. He subsequently worked in Brussels, Paris and Rome before returning to Leipzig in 1893.

Klinger became a professor at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig and a member of the Vienna Secession in 1897. His Beethoven sculpture was first exhibited at the Secession in 1902. He became vice-president of the German Artists’ Association in 1903 and helped establish its Villa Romana studio house in Florence in 1905.

His paintings and sculptures are held by the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Moritzburg Art Museum, Galerie Neue Meister and Belvedere. His prints are represented in the Albertina, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum. He died at his home in Großjena near Naumburg, where he is buried

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