Der Mantel (The Coat)
1919
Artist, German, 1897 - 1929
Author, Russian, 1809 - 1852
Printer
Publisher, German, 1880 - 1949
Translator
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2012.92.623.1-13
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Catalogue Raisonné
Eckhardt 1932, nos. 55 i/ii, 56 only, 57 iii/iv, 58-59 ii/iii, 60 i/iii, 61 only, 62 ii/ii, 63-65 only, 66 ii/ii
Associated Artworks
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Akaki trägt den Mantel das erstemal auf der Straße (Akaki Wears the Coat on the Street for the First Time) (plate 6) from Der Mantel (The Coat)
Walter Gramatté, Nikolai Gogol, Panpresse, Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer, Felix Gaber
1919
Akaki geht ratlos auf der Straße (Akaki Walks Helplessly on the Street) (plate 4) from Der Mantel (The Coat)
Walter Gramatté, Nikolai Gogol, Panpresse, Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer, Felix Gaber
1919
Akaki in Fieberphantasien (Akaki in a Fever Delirium) (plate 9) from Der Mantel (The Coat)
Walter Gramatté, Nikolai Gogol, Panpresse, Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer, Felix Gaber
1919
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 3, 1988; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1932
Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Amalthea-Verlag: 1932, nos. 52-66.
Inscriptions
First lithograph signed and dated in graphite bottom right: Walter Gramatté / 18.; the remaining 11 lithographs initialed in graphite: WG[?] 18