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Der Krieg (The War) (in-text plate) 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) on wove paper
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
