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
About the Artist
Walter Gramatté
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...