Read the visual description
This is a drawing of a cemetery scene coupled with a poem. The top part of the image features a black and white drawing depicting a procession in a cemetery. A group of figures, draped in black, are shown moving past graves marked with crosses. Behind them, a large, decorated structure resembling a tomb or chapel stands, surrounded by tall trees which create the impression of a forest setting. Below the drawing, there is a block of text in German. This text is a poem titled "Allerseelen."
National Gallery of Art · Volume
Allerseelen (All Soul's Day) (headpiece, page 44) 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
- 2012.92.41.37
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-W
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 227793. 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.