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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Schlemihls Begegnung mit dem Schatten (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl's Encounter with His Shadow)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938)

1915

Medium
color woodcut on wove paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
block: 31 x 29.3 cm (12 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.) ; overall: 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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