Alle Landschaften Haben I (All Landscapes Have I) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
1912/1922
Medium
woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper
Dimensions
book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.40.10
Art Historical Context
**Alle Landschaften Haben IAll Landscapes Have I)**, a striking woodcut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, appears as an in-text plate in the 1912/1922 mock-up of *Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Shadow of Life)*. Kirchner, a founding member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke, created this as part of a ambitious bound volume containing 51 woodcuts—including the cover and endpapers—on wove paper. The project paired his vivid prints with poems by Georg Heym, the visionary Expressionist poet who drowned tragically at age 24 in 1912, capturing the era's turbulent emotions amid pre-World War I anxieties....
About the Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1880–1938
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Germany, to parents Ernst and Maria Kirchner, part of a family of Prussian descent that frequently relocated due to his father's career as a chemical technician. After early schooling in various towns, he studied architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Dresden from 1901 to 1905, taking courses i...