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Alfred Döblin: Das Stiftsfräulein und der Tod (Alfred Döblin: The Canoness and Death)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938)

author Alfred Döblin (German, 1878 - 1957)

1913

Medium
bound volume with 5 woodcut illustrations on wove paper
Classification
Volume
Dimensions
overall: 23.5 x 18.2 x 17 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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