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)
Artwork Details
- Title: 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)
- Series/Portfolio: Zehn Flugblätter der Gemeinschaft die Pforte (Ten Pamphlets issued by the Community of the Gate)
- Artist: Gustav Wolf (German, Östringen 1887–1947 Greenfield, Massachusetts)
- Artist: Hans Thoma (German, Bernau im Schwarzwald 1839–1924 Karlsruhe)
- Author: Alfred Mombert (German, 1872–1942)
- Author: Emil Alfred Herrmann (German, born 1871)
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, Frankfurt am Main 1749–1832 Weimar, Saxe-Weimar)
- Publisher: Eugen Diederichs Verlag , Jena
- Date: 1918–20
- Medium: Woodcuts, lithographs and letterpress
- Dimensions: 19 5/16 × 15 3/16 in. (49 × 38.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Helen W. Humeston, in memory of Franz C. Hess and Flora K. Hess, 1981
- Object Number: 1981.1050.2(1–6)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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