The Burial (Begrabnis)

1916

Walter Gramatté

Associated Names
Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

The image is a black and white print depicting a wide, winding road leading towards a group of small, abstracted buildings on the horizon. The horizon line is high in the composition, and the buildings appear as simplified forms. Figures are seen walking down the road, portrayed in dark silhouettes, creating a sense of movement towards the distance. The technique seems to be a stark, bold graphic style, likely a woodcut or linocut print, featuring defined lines and shapes. The color palette is monochrome, using only black and white with high contrast and strong compositional elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    linocut in black on thin japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.8 x 22 cm (9 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 37.1 x 32.3 cm (14 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1989.80.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February, 1984; gift to NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

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

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 65, repro. p.84.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: E 15 W.Gramatte, Begrabnis 1916

Wikidata ID

Q74884275

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