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This is a drawing of a typographic and illustrative composition in German featuring black and white imagery. It is divided into sections with blocks of German text and stylized black and white illustrations. The top includes human figures and a horizontal text introduction. Below, a figure appears to be looking at something against a jagged background. Alongside and below the text are simplified drawings of a cabin and mountains. The drawing is done in a woodcut style with bold lines and high contrast.
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This is a drawing of a typographic and illustrative composition in German featuring black and white imagery. It is divided into sections with blocks of German text and stylized black and white illustrations. The top includes human figures and a horizontal text introduction. Below, a figure appears to be looking at something against a jagged background. Alongside and below the text are simplified drawings of a cabin and mountains. The drawing is done in a woodcut style with bold lines and high contrast.

National Gallery of Art · Volume

Alle Landschaften Haben (All Landscapes Have) (plate, page 14) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Date
1924
Medium
woodcut from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper
Dimensions
book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume · Print
Accession number
2012.92.41.12
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • woodcut
  • Mountains
  • Shadow
  • Poetry
  • German Expressionist
Provenance

(Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1985, lot 67); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

NGA object ID 227768. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.