Akaki hat in einer Auslage das Bild einer hübschen Frau gesehen (Akaki Saw a Picture of a Pretty Woman in a Display) (plate 7) from Der Mantel (The Coat)

1919

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

Nikolai Gogol

Author, Russian, 1809 - 1852

Gustav Kiepenheuer

Publisher, German, 1880 - 1949

Felix Gaber

Translator

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph from a bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.623.8

  • 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

Inscriptions

First lithograph signed and dated in graphite bottom right: Walter Gramatté / 18.; the remaining 11 lithographs initialed in graphite: WG[?] 18


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