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Mortality
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Though Jacob Steinhardt came to be best known for his woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects, this print, made during World War I, evokes the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. Much of…

Contributor:

Jakob Steinhardt

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913–1914

Subjects:

Death, Expressionism, Ecology, Life cycle, Modernism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of two skeletal faces.
God, Hear . . .
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The night draws in around my eyes Its ring of haze. My pulse has sent my blood into a blaze Though all about me a gray coldness lies. O God, that I by living day Should dream I’m dead, Drink it in…

Contributor:

Else Lasker-Schüler

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Death, Theology, Ecology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry