This is a drawing of a cemetery scene coupled with a poem. The top part of the image features a black and white drawing depicting a procession in a cemetery. A group of figures, draped in black, are shown moving past graves marked with crosses. Behind them, a large, decorated structure resembling a tomb or chapel stands, surrounded by tall trees which create the impression of a forest setting. Below the drawing, there is a block of text in German. This text is a poem titled "Allerseelen."
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Allerseelen (All Soul's Day) (headpiece, page 44) 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
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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