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Walter Gramatté
Lenz: A fragment by Georg Büchner with twelve etchings by Walter Gramatté1925

Not on view
Vertical etching or lithograph with bold black ink, depicting two abstracted, semi-figurative round forms pressed together amid dense hatching and stark white voids
Etching or drypoint print, close-up portrait of a head with short hair, rendered in energetic, scratchy black lines on a textured gray ground, with hatching across the face and distorted facial features.
Intaglio print in black and white depicting a reclining figure rendered with vigorous hatched lines, with a row of circular forms along the upper edge against a dark, heavily worked background.
Etching portrait of an elderly person, close-cropped and filling the composition, rendered with dense crosshatching, gestural scored lines, and aquatint texture against a dark streaked background.
Black and white woodblock or linocut print, close-up frontal portrait of a figure with curly hair, rendered in bold expressive lines with hatched cross-hatching in the background and rough ink texture throughout.
Monotype or lithograph portrait, close-up of a face filling most of the composition, rendered with expressive gestural line work and heavy cross-hatching in black and white. Hair sweeps across the forehead; loose, scratchy marks define wrinkled features and downward-gazing eyes.
Black and white intaglio print, close-up portrait of a figure with long hair resting their chin on a raised hand, rendered in dense cross-hatched and scratched lines.
Intaglio print, close-up portrait of an older person's face filling the frame, rendered in bold black lines with heavy crosshatching; deeply etched wrinkles, wide-open eyes, and parted lips; dark textured background with horizontal hatched bands at sides.
Print or monotype of a frontal face with closed eyes, rendered in sparse black lines on a speckled gray ground, with wavy zigzag marks along both sides.
Black and white print landscape with bold, expressive linework; sweeping horizontal strokes fill the sky above rolling hills, scattered conifers, and jagged rocky forms in the foreground.

Walter Gramatté, Plate 1, 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Lenz: A fragment by Georg Büchner with twelve etchings by Walter Gramatté
Place Made
Germany, Hamburg
Date Made
1925
Medium
Printed material and twelve etchings on Van Gelder Bütten paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.742a-l
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.