The Burial (Begräbnis)

1916

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color linocut on japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.766

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

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

Inscriptions

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]

Markings

stamp, verso lower right, in black ink: R

Wikidata ID

Q76560406

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