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Walter Gramatté
The tragic mission: A dramatization in ten scenes1920

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Vertical woodcut print with bold black and white contrast, a figure with glasses and raised arms surrounded by sharp zigzag and lightning bolt shapes
Woodcut print in black and white; two stylized figures near a staircase, one in the foreground facing the viewer, one ascending behind, surrounded by angular, jagged forms with bold contrasting areas of black and white.
Black and white woodcut print with bold, expressionistic carving; a standing figure in dark clothing faces a second figure seated or reclining in a doorway at right, with a small scene of a figure on a ladder visible in an upper-left panel; undulating lines suggest a floor or fabric in the foreground
Woodcut print in black and white; a standing robed figure faces a kneeling figure who holds an open book, surrounded by small bird-like shapes; a concentric oval form floats in the upper right, with bold, rough-cut lines throughout.
Woodblock print in stark black and white; a cloaked figure leans over piano keys in the lower foreground, with a crescent moon visible against a dark, heavily gouged background.
Woodblock print, two standing figures in black robes facing forward, rendered in flat bold forms with minimal facial detail, framed by a jagged zigzag border pattern in black and white.
Woodcut print in black and white; a clothed figure stands in left profile facing a seated, partially unclothed figure surrounded by radiating lines, set within an angular interior space with bold carved gouges and high contrast.
Black and white woodcut or linocut print with bold, flat forms. In the foreground, a bust-length figure with dark hair faces the viewer. Behind and above, a smaller standing figure is positioned on a diagonal striped surface, suggesting a ramp or staircase.
Black and white woodcut or linocut print; bust-length figure with angular features against a dark background scattered with small oval and elongated white shapes; a large hand reaches down from the upper left toward the figure's head.
Woodcut print in black and white with bold, angular lines; a standing figure raises one arm upward toward diagonal rays of light, while two smaller figures look up from below, all rendered in simplified, expressionistic forms against a dark ground.

Walter Gramatté, Plate 1, 1920, 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
The tragic mission: A dramatization in ten scenes
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1920
Medium
Printed material and ten woodcuts on Dutch handmade paper
Dimensions
9 × 5 3/4 × 3/4 in. (22.86 × 14.61 × 1.91 cm)
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
83.1.744a-j
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies