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Walter Gramatté
Wozzeck1925

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print of two figures, one standing and embracing a seated figure in a wooden chair, rendered in bold gestural lines with ink spatter throughout
Intaglio print of a close-up figure with long flowing hair, hands clasped over the mouth, heavily hatched dark eyes, a cross in the upper left background, rendered in expressive gestural line work.
Intaglio print with gestural linework depicting a uniformed figure in a peaked cap, one hand raised to the head, surrounded by diagonal lines suggesting rain or wind; a large open-jawed animal form with sharp teeth dominates the lower left foreground.
Black and white print with bold, expressive linework depicting two distorted faces in close confrontation, one holding a dark object; radiating diagonal lines fill the background.
Etching of two bundled figures in heavy coats and caps walking away from the viewer along a diagonal path, bare winter trees rendered in loose, energetic line work behind them.
Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Wozzeck
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1925
Medium
Thirteen etchings on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
See individual entries
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
83.1.10a-m
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.