Akaki in Fieberphantasien (Akaki in a Fever Delirium) (plate 9) from Der Mantel (The Coat)
1919
Medium
lithograph from a bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper
Dimensions
book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.623.10
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Walter Gramatté · 1897–1929
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...