The Burial (Begräbnis), 1916

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Medium

color linocut on japan paper

Dimensions

sheet: 35.3 x 40 cm (13 7/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
plate: 24 x 22 cm (9 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Eckhardt 1932, no. 15

Accession Number

2012.92.766

Artists / Makers

Walter Gramatté (artist) German, 1897 - 1929

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right under plate, in graphite: Walter Gramatté / isic.; by artist, lower left inder plate, in graphite: Leishenberg und [indecipherable]; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: E15A; by later hand, verso lower right, in grahite: 2 [circled]

Marks and Labels

stamp, verso lower right, in black ink: R

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 17, 1990; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1932: Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932: 15.