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The image is of a page from a book featuring text and an illustration. The illustration depicts mountains, clouds, and a village. The view is directly overhead. The illustration is in a black and white woodcut style with bold lines and high contrast. The overall color scheme is cream or off-white paper with black ink. The mountains and village are prominently featured in the illustration.
National Gallery of Art · Volume
Alle Landschaften Haben I (All Landscapes Have I) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Date
- 1912/1922
- 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.)
- Classification
- Volume · Print
- Accession number
- 2012.92.40.10
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-W
Portfolio and series
- Volume
- Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
Subjects and terms
- German
- woodcut
- Shadow
- Poetry
- German Expressionist
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.
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