Artworks · Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Allerseelen (All Soul's Day) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Der Winter (The Winter) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Neuen Häuser (The New Houses) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nacht III (Night III) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Blinden Frauen (The Blind Women) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Der Sterbende Faun (The Dying Faun) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Kata (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Fröhlichkeit (Joyfulness) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Stadt (The City) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Halber Schlaf (Half Sleep) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Irren IV (The Mad IV) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Verfluchung der Städte V (Curse Against the Cities V) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Nacht (The Night) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Irren I (The Mad I) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Irren II (The Mad II) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Irren III (The Mad III) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Schlösser (The Castles) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Städte (The Cities) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Stadt der Qual (The City of Agony) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Spitzköpfig kommt er... (With a Pointed Head He Rises...) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Mit den Fahrenden Schiffen (With Travelling Ships) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Meerstädte (The Sea Cities) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Mond (Moon) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Alle Landschaften Haben II (All Landscapes Have II) (plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Der Garten der Irren (The Garden of the Mad) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Seefahrer (The Seafarer) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Die Morgue (The Morgue) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Titelblatt (title page) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Umbra Vitae (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Der Krieg (The War) (in-text plate) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Vorsatz (front endpapers) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on pink wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Bucheinband (cover) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · woodcut from a bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers)

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Nude Girl at her Toilette

1912 · lithograph on beige wove paper

sheet: 67.2 × 54.1 cm (26 7/16 × 21 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Danish Farm with Manor House

1912 · lithograph printed in black

image: 31.7 x 42.2 cm (12 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.) sheet: 39.3 x 52.5 cm (15 1/2 x 20 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

River Bank at Elisabeth (Berlin)

1912 · woodcut in black

image: 20.5 x 23 cm (8 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 42.8 x 34 cm (16 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Two Bathers on the Fehmarn Coast (Zwei Badende am hoher Fehmarnküste)

1912 · brush and black ink on wove paper

sheet: 58.1 × 45.9 cm (22 7/8 × 18 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Women Bathing Between White Stones (Badende Frauen Zwischen Weissen Steinen)

1912 · color woodcut on Japanese paper

image: 28.4 × 27.6 cm (11 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.48 × 31.7 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Bather

1912 · colored chalk on wove paper

overall: 58.7 x 46 cm (23 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Artist's mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912 · bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Erna Lying on the Beach among Rocks

1912 · reed pen and black ink

overall: 46.1 x 58.9 cm (18 1/8 x 23 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Bather on the Beach

1912 · black crayon with blue and gray wash

overall: 43.4 x 31.8 cm (17 1/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Woman Tying Her Shoe (Frau, Schuh Zuknopfend)

1912 · woodcut

National Gallery of Art

Portrait of Gustav Schiefler

1912 · Pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper

43.9 × 35.9 cm (17 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Women

1912 · Pastel and charcoal with stumping on paper

62.4 × 45.3 cm (24 5/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gerda Schilling, the Artist's Sister-in-Law

1912 · Graphite, on cream wove paper

52.9 × 39.3 cm (20 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dying Old Maid (Sterbendes altes Fräulein) from the illustrated book Das Stiftsfräulein und der Tod (The Canoness and Death)

1912 · Woodcut

composition (.5): 4 5/8 x 3 1/8" (11.8 x 7.9 cm); sheet (.5): 9 5/16 x 7 1/8" (23.7 x 18.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Canoness in the Garden (Das Stiftsfräulein im Garten) from the illustrated book Das Stiftsfräulein und der Tod (The Canoness and Death)

1912 · Woodcut

composition: 4 5/8 x 3 1/8" (11.8 x 8 cm); sheet: 9 3/16 x 7 1/8" (23.3 x 18.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art