Umbra vitae: nachgelassene Gedichte (In the Shadow of Life: Posthumous Poems)
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Umbra vitae: nachgelassene Gedichte (In the Shadow of Life: Posthumous Poems)
Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880-1938
Publisher
Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich, 1924
Author
Georg Heym
German, 1887-1912
Date1924
DimensionsSlipcase: H: 9 1/2 in. (241 mm); W: 6 5/8 in. (168 mm); Depth: 9/16 in. (15 mm).
Book: H: 9 1/4 in. (235 mm); W: 6 3/8 in. (162 mm); Depth: 1/2 in. (13 mm).
Page: H: 9 1/16 in. (230 mm); W: 6 1/8 in. (156 mm).
Book: H: 9 1/4 in. (235 mm); W: 6 3/8 in. (162 mm); Depth: 1/2 in. (13 mm).
Page: H: 9 1/16 in. (230 mm); W: 6 1/8 in. (156 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 50 woodcuts, incl. 46 in sepia, 1 in black and red (frontispiece), 2 in pink and blue (endpapers), and 1 in black and green (covers). Text: letterpress in sepia/black (typeface: Fette Steinschrift). Paper: cream laid.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.606
Not on View
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Published Referencescf. Dube, Annemarie, Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner, Das graphische Werk, Munich, 1967, nos. 759--807, reprs.
- Works on Paper
cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 142.
cf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1994, p. 229.
cf. Lang, Lothar, Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907--1927, New York, Boston, 1976, no. 175, p. 223, reprs. (2 col.) pp. 42--43, 122--126, 129--130.
cf. Reed, Orrel P., Jr., German Expressionist Art: The Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Los Angeles, 1977, no. 104, reprs.
Symmes, Marilyn, "Illustrated books at The Toledo Museum of Art", The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Miami, winter 1988, p. 63, reprs., col. repr. p. 53.
cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 104
cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 46.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 35, repr.New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1994-94.
Toledo Museum of Art, Modern Woodcuts, May 5 - July 24, 2000.
Toledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Great War: Art on the Frontline, Jul. 25-Oct. 19, 2014.
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