Lot 310 | Zu "Umbra Vitae, Nachgelassene Gedichte" von Georg Heym

KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG
1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos

Title: Zu "Umbra Vitae, Nachgelassene Gedichte" von Georg Heym.
Date: 1924.
Description: Each a coloured woodcut on binding and title page as well as 47 woodcuts in the text.
Additionally, drypoint etching with a print form a wooden printing block in yellow. "Kopf
des Dichters Georg Heym" on laid paper. Signed in the imprint: E. L. Kirchner. Here
additionally numbered: 2. Combination printing: signed and inscribed in the print: E. L.
Kirchner, Dem Dichter Georg Heym; inscribed on the sheet: Buch 2. Buch 23,5 x 16 x 1,5cm.
In original leather casket (26 x 19 x3,5cm).


This book is the copy 2/10 of the special edition (total edition: 510) with the illustrations of the artist who decided on the entire book layout and woodcuts on the binding and intensions. Enclosed is an important document about the cooperation of two grand representatives of the expressionistic poety and printing.

Literature:
- Dube, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, vol. I - Katalog, Munich 1991 (3rd ed.), cat. rais. no. 758-807 (woodcuts)
- Gercken, Günther: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. V, 1920-1924, Bern 2019, cat, rais. no. 1337, VII, B (combination print)

We thank Mr. Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler for his kind support.