Lonely Heights
1955
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View on museum website →Medium
etching and stencil in blue, magenta, and red on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 55.7 x 30.2 cm (21 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 67 x 41.3 cm (26 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1533
About the Artist
Karl Schrag
Karl Schrag (1912–1995) was a German-born American painter and printmaker whose richly expressive work occupied a distinctive space between abstraction and a deeply felt response to the natural world. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, he studied in Geneva, Paris, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, immersing himself in the currents of European modernism before the rise of National Socialism forced him, lik...