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   Kirchner acquired a copy of Umbra Vitae shortly after publication and clearly felt an affinity with Heym’s verse since he soon began drawing pictures to accompany the poems in the blank spaces on the pages. Knowing of this, a mutual acquaintance of Kirchner and the publisher Kurt Wolff, suggested in 1922 that Wolff should commission Kirchner to illustrate a new edition of Umbra Vitae.

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2. www.moma.org › collection › worksErnst Ludwig Kirchner. Umbra vitae (Shadow of Life). 1924 - MoMA

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   52. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner illustrated the 1924 reprint of Umbra Vitae (Shadow of life), a posthumous collection of Georg Heym's Expressionist poems that was first published in 1912, the year of the poet's premature death, at age twenty-four, by drowning. Kirchner, who owned a copy of the earlier edition and knew the poems very well, designed ...

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   Umbra Vitae is Kirchner’s masterpiece in book art. The artist was obsessed by Heym’s haunting poems, which explore such themes as alienation, death, estrangement, loneliness, and war. Kirchner selected the poems included here, created corresponding images, and designed the book. In 1915 he had enlisted "involuntarily voluntarily" in the ...

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   Ernst Ludwig Kirchner illustrated the 1924 reprint of Umbra Vitae (Shadow of life), a posthumous collection of Georg Heym's Expressionist poems that was first published in 1912, the year of the poet's premature death, at age twenty-four, by drowning. Kirchner, who owned a copy of the earlier edition and knew the poems very well, designed all of the elements himself, including the 46 woodcuts ...

6. www.moma.org › s › geErnst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938) - MoMA

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   Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Painter, printmaker, sculptor. One month before earning his architecture degree in Dresden in 1905, founded Brücke artists' group with university friends Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; assumed leadership role with his strong personality, talent, and ambition. During early years, concentrated on ...

7. www.museoreinasofia.es › umbra-vitae-shadow-lifeErnst Ludwig Kirchner - Umbra Vitae (Shadow of Life)

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   Why did Kirchner buy Umbra vitae?

   • Kirchner acquired a copy of Umbra Vitae shortly after publication and clearly felt an affinity with Heym’s verse since he soon began drawing pictures to accompany the poems in the blank spaces on the pages.

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   Did Ernst Ludwig Kirchner design Umbra vitae?

   • Reproduced in Am Ufer des blauen Tags. However, in 1924, a new edition of Umbra Vitae appeared, designed and illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which succeeded brilliantly in giving visual form to Heym’s work. Front and back covers of Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae: nachgelassene Gedichte, mit 47 Originalholzschnitten von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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   What is the size of Umbra vitae?

   • Umbra vitae (Shadow of Life). 1924. Georg Heym. Illustrated book with fifty woodcuts. page: 9 1/16 x 6 1/8" (23 x 15.6 cm); overall: 9 5/16 x 6 7/16 x 1/2" (23.6 x 16.4 x 1.2 cm). Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich. Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig.

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   Who was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner?

   • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Umbra vitae (Shadow of Life). 1924 | MoMA It was within the artists' group Brücke ( Bridge ), founded in 1905, that Ernst Ludwig Kirchner formulated his views on art and established a visual language.

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   Did Heym and Kirchner ever meet?

   • Heym and Kirchner never met, although after Heym’s death Kirchner and his fellow-artists of the group ‘ Die Brücke ’ became associated with the literary circle ‘Der Neue Club’ to which Heym had belonged.

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   Der Krieg (The War) (headpiece, page 3) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life) Die Morgue (The Morgue) (headpiece, page 5) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life) Die Seefahrer (The Seafarer) (headpiece, page 10) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life) National Gallery of Art.