Liegender Rückenakt (Reclining Nude) (tailpiece, table of contents) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1924

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

Georg Heym

Author, German, born Poland, 1887 - 1912

Kurt Wolff

Publisher, German, 1887 - 1963

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.41.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1980, nos. 611, 759-807

Associated Artworks

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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

Der Garten der Irren (The Garden of the Mad) (headpiece, page 12) 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.


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