Titelvignette (title vignette) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1912/1922 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper
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About this picture
Titelvignette (title vignette) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life) is a public-domain illustration by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, dated 1912/1922. Woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Titelvignette (title vignette) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)” (1912/1922) is drawn with Kirchner’s sharp, uneven contour. The subject is a street, a sitter, or, in the later years, the mountains.
About the artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) was a founder of the Brücke group. Sharp color marks the Berlin street scenes. Later he painted the mountains around Davos.
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