Dornen vor Lictherscheinung (Thorns Before a Burst of Light); and Das Erste Flugblatt vom Lebendigen Sein (First Leaflet of Being Alive)

Gustav Wolf German

Publisher Eugen Diederichs Verlag German

1918–22

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: Dornen vor Lictherscheinung (Thorns Before a Burst of Light); and Das Erste Flugblatt vom Lebendigen Sein (First Leaflet of Being Alive)
Artist: Gustav Wolf (German, Östringen 1887–1947 Greenfield, Massachusetts)
Publisher: Eugen Diederichs Verlag
Date: 1918–22
Medium: Colored woodcuts and letterpress
Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 14 11/16 in. (56 × 37.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Helen W. Humeston, in memory of Franz C. Hess and Flora K. Hess, 1981
Object Number: 1981.1050.1(1–3)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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1-2: Die Zwölf Himmelszeichen, von Hans Thoma (Twelve signs of the zodiac, by Hans Thoma); 3: Weltbild, von Gustav Wolf (World picture, by Gustav Wolf); 8: Aeon's Völker-Zeit ist um, bei Alfred Mombert (Aeon's People's Time has arrived, by Alfred Mombert); 9: Von Deutscher Baukunst, aus Goethe's Blättern, mit dem holzschnitt des Straßburger Münsters, von Gustav Wolf (On German architecture, from Goethe's Papers, with a woodcut of Strasburg catherdral by Gustav Wolf); 10: Das Teifelsroß, ein altes Vokslied erneuert von Emil Alfred Herrmann (the Devil's Horse, a folksong renewed by Emil Alfred Hermann, with a woodcut by Gustav Wolf)

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