Tired Soldier I

1919

Walter Gramatté

Associated Names
Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

The image depicts a stylized representation of a person's upper body. The person's head is turned slightly towards the viewer with an abstract and angular facial expression. Their hair appears to be short and styled upwards. They are seated, leaning slightly to the side with one elbow resting on an unseen armrest, and holding an object in their hand. Their clothing is suggested with simple lines, possibly a jacket or coat. The background is minimally detailed with vertical lines, focusing attention on the subject. The image has a sketch-like quality, emphasizing simplicity and abstraction in the depiction.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.2 × 14 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 34.4 × 25 cm (13 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.249

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 127, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ketterer Kunst, Munich, March 29, 1983, lot 187); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 29, 1993; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932: no. 127, only

Inscriptions

signed and dated below image, at right, in graphite: Gramatté / 19; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: 16 31 (...) 3 (?)

Wikidata ID

Q76556459

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