Gloomy Face, Self-portrait (Dunkles Gesicht, Selbstporträt)
Walter Gramatté
1922
Medium
etching, engraving, and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 53.2 × 38.5 cm (20 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.) plate: 25.5 × 17.5 cm (10 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.254
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Walter Gramatté · 1897–1929
Walter Gramatté, born Walter Eduard Gramatté on January 8, 1897, in Berlin-Wedding to building manager Otto Gramatté and his wife Katharina, emerged as a poignant voice in German Expressionism despite a tragically brief career. The son of modest parents—described variably as a baker in some accounts—Gramatté volunteered for World War I in 1914 but was largely spared frontline duty due to chronic p...