Die Meerstädte (The Sea Cities) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life), 1912/1922

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volume Title

Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

Medium

woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

Dimensions

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1980, nos. 611, 759-807, and 1 undesc.

Accession Number

2012.92.40.15

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Georg Heym (author) German, born Poland, 1887 - 1912

Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig (printer)

Kurt Wolff (publisher) German, 1887 - 1963

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Provenance

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; Walter Kern [1898-1966], Winterthur (Lugt 1567a); Erna Kirchner, Kirchner's wife, acquired from Walter Kern, June 20, 1940. Hans Bolliger, Zurich (?); [1] (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 21 June 1985, no. 104); (via Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, DC (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] Derived from correspondence between Ruth Kainen and Bob Rifkind, August 13, 1985, in which the former mentions the "Bollinger" collection in relation to the present object.