Bucheinband (cover) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
1924
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Author, German, born Poland, 1887 - 1912
Publisher, German, 1887 - 1963
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, printed in black and green, on yellow cloth from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2012.92.41.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1980, nos. 611, 759-807
Associated Artworks
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Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Heym, Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig, Kurt Wolff
1924
Umbra Vitae (headpiece, page 1) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Heym, Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig, Kurt Wolff
1924
Der Sterbende Faun (The Dying Faun) (headpiece, page 35) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Heym, Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig, Kurt Wolff
1924
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1985, lot 67); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2014
Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.