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The Kestner Book (Das Kestnerbuch)

Date:

1919

Artist:

Erich Heckel (German, 1883-1970), Wilhelm Plünnecke (German, 1894-1954), Max Unold (German, 1885-1964), Richard Seewald (German, 1889-1976), Eberhara Viegener (German, 1890-1967), Conrad Felixmüller (German, 1897-1977), Otto Gleichmann (German, 1887-1963), Ernst Barlach (German, 1870-1938), Paul Klee (German, born Switzerland, 1879-1940), Max Burchartz (German, 1887-1961), Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956), and Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948)
written by Thomas Mann (German, 1875-1955), Carl Hauptmann (German, 1858-1921), Herbert Eulenberg (German, 1876-1949), Alfred Döblin (German, 1878-1957), Hermann Essig (German, 1878-1918), Adolf von Hatzfeld (German, 1892-1957), Paul Kornfeld (German, born Czech Republic, 1889-1942), Walt Whitman (American, 1819-1892), Else Lasker-Schüler (German, 1869-1945), Albert Steffen (Swiss, 1884-1963), Max Pulver (Swiss, 1889-1952), Alfred Mombert (German, 1872-1942), Friedrich Koffka (German, 1888-1951), Franz Janowitz (Austrian, 1892-1917), Theodor Däubler (German, 1876-1934), Karl Schenzinger (German, 1886-1962), Karl Thylmann (German, 1888-1916), Wilhelm Worringer (German, 1881-1965), and Willi Wolfradt (German, 1892-1988)
published by Paul Erich Küppers (German, 1889-1922)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Erich Heckel

Title

The Kestner Book (Das Kestnerbuch)

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1919

Medium

Book with six lithographs and six woodcuts in black on cream wove paper

Dimensions

28 × 22.8 × 2 cm (11 1/16 × 9 × 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.467

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