![[KIRCHNER] — Georg HEYM (1887-1912). Umbra Vitae. Munich: 1924. In-4 (232 x 156 mm). Illustré par Ernst Ludwig Kirchner de 47 gravures sur bois dont un frontispice en rouge et noir. (Un feuillet froissé.) Cartonnage de l'éditeur illustré par Kirchner, doublure et gardes ornées de bois de Kirchner, jaquette de papier vert et étui de l’éditeur avec vignette contrecollée portant le numéro de l’exemplaire (menus manques à la jaquette, étui un peu passé).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/PAR/2016_PAR_14627_0042_000(kirchner_georg_heym_umbra_vitae_munich_1924_in-4_illustre_par_ernst_lu091732).jpg?w=1)
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[KIRCHNER] — Georg HEYM (1887-1912). Umbra Vitae. Munich: 1924. In-4 (232 x 156 mm). Illustré par Ernst Ludwig Kirchner de 47 gravures sur bois dont un frontispice en rouge et noir. (Un feuillet froissé.) Cartonnage de l'éditeur illustré par Kirchner, doublure et gardes ornées de bois de Kirchner, jaquette de papier vert et étui de l’éditeur avec vignette contrecollée portant le numéro de l’exemplaire (menus manques à la jaquette, étui un peu passé).
ÉDITION EN PARTIE ORIGINALE tirée à 510 exemplaires. Un des 500 sur Arches, celui-ci le n° 382. “The Expressionist poet Heym was twenty-four in 1912 when he drowned while skating. Many years later his work was collected in this volume designed and illustrated by Germany’s leading Expressionist artist. Kirchner made several series of prints on literary subjects, but only three were in the form of books, of which Umbra Vitae was the artist’s major effort. Its woodcut illustrations were influenced by the peasant woodcarvings in the area of Switzerland where he lived after World War II” (Castleman 229). "C'est vraisemblablement le plus beau livre expressionniste" (Paris-Berlin). BEL EXEMPLAIRE. Paris-Berlin 86; Garvey 142.
ÉDITION EN PARTIE ORIGINALE tirée à 510 exemplaires. Un des 500 sur Arches, celui-ci le n° 382. “The Expressionist poet Heym was twenty-four in 1912 when he drowned while skating. Many years later his work was collected in this volume designed and illustrated by Germany’s leading Expressionist artist. Kirchner made several series of prints on literary subjects, but only three were in the form of books, of which Umbra Vitae was the artist’s major effort. Its woodcut illustrations were influenced by the peasant woodcarvings in the area of Switzerland where he lived after World War II” (Castleman 229). "C'est vraisemblablement le plus beau livre expressionniste" (Paris-Berlin). BEL EXEMPLAIRE. Paris-Berlin 86; Garvey 142.
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47 woodcuts by Ludwig Kirchner. Limited edition of 510 numbered copies. This copy n° 382 is one of 500 on wove paper.
Original pictorial cloth in yellow, green and black, binding and endpapers after the design by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, original dust-jacket.
Original pictorial cloth in yellow, green and black, binding and endpapers after the design by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, original dust-jacket.
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