The image displays a square illustration comprised of jagged and swirling lines in black and white. The abstract design creates a chaotic composition with curving lines and sharp angles. The shapes suggest movement and organic flow. Above the illustration, the text "MIT DEN FAHRENDEN SCHIFFEN" is displayed in bold, capitalized letters. Below the visual, a poem is presented in neatly aligned stanzas.
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Mit den Dahrenden Schiffen (With Travelling Ships) (headpiece, page 15) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The 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

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