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The text may be approximately translated as:
 
Apocalyptic Landscapes: A Preface.
Ten Landscapes and a Resolution.
Hermann Wöhler 1925-26
To Jakob Böhme.

A very similar drawing by Wöhler of a title page, entitled Wie sie so sanft ruhn (‘How they rest so gently’), from the series Sieben Lieder und Landschaften der Andacht (‘Seven Songs of Landscape and Devotion’) of c.1929, is in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.


Pen and black ink, within a border drawn in pen and black ink, on thick textured paper.
Signed with the artist’s monogram HW at the lower right.
Signed, dated and titled  Apokalyptische  / Landschaften  / Ein Vorblatt / zehn Land / Schaften und ein Beschluss.  / Hermann Wöhler/1925-26 / An Jakob Böhme in the centre.
Titled and numbered Apokalyptische landschaften  /  Vorblatt  /  Abb.1 / IV on the verso.
Numbered and inscribed IV / A / AUS DER FOLGE VON A3 BLL “APOKALTYPTISCHE  LANDSCHAFTEN”  /  HERMANN WOHLER  AN JAKOB BÖHME (VORBLATT) on the old mount.