This is a drawing featuring abstract architecture and human figures. The image includes a stylized building with a flag, a figure on the roof, and abstract figures on the walls and towers. There is also a black and white drawing of a figure with wings on their shoulders against a geometric background. Surrounding the drawings, there is text in German related to the creative process. Bold lines and simple shapes are used, with contrasting colors of blue and red for the architecture and black and white for the figure drawing.
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Ornament from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938)

author Will Grohmann (German, 1887 - 1968)

publisher Arnolds Graphische Bücher

printer Johannes Pässler

1925

Medium
woodcut from a bound volume with 17 woodcuts (including title page and front and back covers) and three photomechanical relief prints (of drawings) on coated paper
Classification
Volume
Dimensions
book: 27 × 21 × 2 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 × 13/16 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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