Mit dem Selbstmord Spielen (Playing with Suicide)

1919

Walter Gramatté

Associated Names
Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

This image features bold, jagged lines and shapes intersecting across a yellow backdrop. The dark, irregular lines and patches create an dynamic composition. The overlapping curves and angular elements suggest limbs and faces.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored woodcut printed in blue, hand-colored with red gouache, on wove yellow paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 42.8 × 35.7 cm (16 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.231

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 20, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased April 17, 1990; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1932

  • Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932: no. 20, only

Inscriptions

in red gouache, at lower left: W. G. 19; in pen and blue ink, below image, at right: Walter Gramatté / 19; in pen and blue ink, below image, at left: Handprobedruck. 2; in pen and blue ink, below image, at center: "Mit dem Selbstmord Spielen"; at bottom right corner, in graphite, by later hand: 11; at bottom left corner, in graphite, by later hand: E 20 A

Wikidata ID

Q76556415

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