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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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The life and career of one of the greatest 19th-century...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig: Umbra Vitae (Shadow of Life) image/svg+xml Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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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.