The image displays abstract shapes and lines forming an outdoor scene with human and animal forms. There are two stylized figures resembling people, one sitting and the other standing nearby. Minimalist lines create animal shapes like horses or goats with elongated legs and necks. Triangular and angled lines in the background suggest mountainous terrain or rolling hills. The overall scene evokes a rural or countryside setting in simplified forms.
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In-text plate 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
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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