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Titelvignette (Title vignette) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938)
and author Georg Heym (German, born Poland, 1887 - 1912)
printer Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig
publisher Kurt Wolff (German, 1887 - 1963)
1924
- Medium
- woodcut from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper
- Classification
- Volume
- Dimensions
- book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 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
