The image shows a stylized artwork of a profile view of a person, with their head and part of the upper body visible. The person is facing to the left, with their hand touching their head. The facial features are abstract and angular, rendered in bold black lines. The hair is simplified and dark. The person appears to be wearing a garment, with contours extending from the neck downward. The background is textured with dark green and off-white tones, with text at the top reading "Georg Heym" and "UMBRAVITÆ."
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Bucheinband (cover) from mock-up of 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)

1912/1922

Medium
woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers)
Classification
Volume
Dimensions
book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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