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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artist
German, 1880 - 1938
Umbra Vitae: Nachgelassene Gedichte by Georg Heym (Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1924)., 1924
Book with 47 woodcuts (color) on cream laid paper, cream laid endpapers with woodcuts in pink (front and back); publisher's yellow linen binding with continuous woodcut, in green and black on front and back
Object: 238 x 163 x 7 mm (9 3/8 x 6 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation 1998.40.64.1-47

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publisher, Kurt Wolff~author, Georg Heym~printer, Spamerschen Buchdruckerel

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Artist Biography: Painter and printmaker. A leader of the group of Expressionist artists known as Die Br¸cke ("The Bridge"). His mature style was highly personal, notable for psychological tension and eroticism. ~~Reference: Dube, Annemarie and Wolfgang. E.L. Kirchner, das graphische Werk (M¸nchen: Prestel, [1967]), 2 vols.~

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