Walter Gramatté

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Walter Gramatté, photograph by Minya Diez-Dührkoop , 1929
Self-Portrait with the Red Moon , 1926

Walter Gramatté (born January 8, 1897 in Berlin , † February 9, 1929 in Hamburg ) was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist of magical realism . His oil paintings are above all an expression of the Christian yearning for salvation and a mystical view of nature. Gramatté also created portraits . His work was shaped by his experiences in the First World War and his illness.

life and work

Portrait of Sonia Gramatté , 1921
Portrait Rosa Schapire , 1920

He exchanged ideas with Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , was very close friends with Hermann Kasack and was the model for the figure of the painter Catell in Kasack's 1947 novel The City Behind the Stream . His whereabouts were Berlin, Hamburg and Hiddensee . He painted portraits of his second wife Sonia at various work tasks, while his self-portraits always show his head against a general background. His drawings of war scenes depict the terrible. The landscapes show flowers, trees and thunderstorms.

Walter Gramatté died on February 9, 1929 at the age of 32 in Hamburg of complications from intestinal tuberculosis . His work was counted under the National Socialists from 1933 to "degenerate art" .

Appreciation

Grave site in Berlin

Gramatté's second wife, Sonia, married the journalist and art historian Ferdinand Eckhardt in 1934 , was then called Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté and lived in Winnipeg / Manitoba as a well-known musician since 1953. In memory of her and Walter Gramatté, "The Eckhardt-Gramatté-Foundation" was founded there.

The written estate is in the German Art Archive in the Germanic National Museum .

The special exhibition Rediscovered: Walter Gramatté 1897-1929. in the Ernst Barlach House in Hamburg (Jenischpark) took place from October 26, 2008 to February 1, 2009. This exhibition was put together by the Kirchner Museum in Davos and the Ernst Barlach House in Hamburg.

Almeria , 1926

In 2010 the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett exhibited parts of Walter Gramatté's graphic work.

Walter Gramatté and Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté were buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen in a grave of honor for the city of Berlin designed by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff .

Works (selection)

  • The Sick with the Flowers , 1918, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne
  • The rebel (sheet III. Scene in the cafe with the clubs) , 1918
  • Tired Flower Girl I (private property)
  • Robert in the theater , 1918
  • Portrait Rosa Schapire , 1920, National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery
  • Even under trees , 1921
  • Morgen am Meer (Hiddensee) , 1921, private collection
  • Even with Wide Eyes , 1922

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Nikolai Gogol: The coat. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Weimar, 1919 (THE GRAPHICAL BOOKS 3rd volume with original lithographs)

literature

  • Ferdinand Eckhardt: The graphic work of Walter Gramatté . Zurich et al. 1932
  • Ferdinand Eckhardt:  Gramatté, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 737 ( digitized version ).
  • Ferdinand Eckhardt: Walter Gramatté. Catalog raisonné in 3 volumes . (1st volume: pictures and watercolors; 2nd volume: hand drawings; 3rd volume: woodcuts, lithographs, etchings). Winnipeg 1981
  • Claus Pese (ed.); Ruth Negendanck (arr.): Walter Gramatté. Documentation in pictures and texts . Stuttgart and Zurich 1990
  • Walter Gramatté. Paintings, watercolors, prints . Catalog. Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf 1992
  • Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . (= Cultural-historical walks in the Germanic National Museum; Vol. 2). Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, pp. 74-77
  • Karin Schick, Björn Egging (eds.): Rediscovered: Walter Gramatté 1897–1929 . Catalog for the exhibition in the Kirchner Museum Davos and in the Ernst-Barlach-Haus Hamburg 2009–2009. DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-9131-3
  • Marcel P. Oettrich: Gramatté, Walter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 60, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22800-1 , p. 196 f.

Web links

Commons : Walter Gramatté  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The curriculum vitae of Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté at www.klassika.info
  2. ↑ a b c Source: Rediscovered: Walter Gramatté 1897-1929. Special exhibition in the Ernst Barlach House in Hamburg (Jenischpark) from October 26, 2008 to February 1, 2009 (leaflet)
personal data
SURNAME Gramatté, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of magical realism
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1929
Place of death Hamburg