Walter Gramatté

Walter Gramatté (Minya Diez-Dührkoop,1929)

Walter Gramatté: Self Portrait with Red Moon, 1926

Walter Gramatté (8 January 1897 in Berlin – 9 February 1929 in Hamburg) was a German expressionist painter who specialized in magic realism. He often painted with a mystical view of nature.

Walter Gramatté died on 9 February 1929 of Intestinal Tuberculosis.

Appreciation

His second wife Sonia married again, was then named Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté and lived in Canada as a renowned musician. To remember her and her former husband Walter Gramatté „The Eckhardt-Gramatté-Foundation" was established in Winnipeg, Canada.

Walter Gramatté's written posthumous works are preserved in the German National Museum.

A special exhibition of his paintings, titled Rediscovered: Walter Gramatté 1897-1929, took place in Hamburg Ernst Barlach Haus from 26 October 2008 to 1 February 2009. This exhibition was organized by Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland and the Ernst Barlach Haus in Hamburg, Germany.

Work

Tired Flower Girl (Sonja) c.1920

• The Patient with the Flowers (1918)
• The Rebel. Café Scene with Stick (1918)
• Robert at the Theatre (1918)
• Portrait of Rosa Schapire (1920)
• Even under Trees (1921)
• Tired Flower Girl I (Private collection)
• Even with Broken Eyes (1922)

Deduction

Gramatté's work is displayed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (German National Museum).

Literature

• Claus Pese: Mehr als nur Kunst. Das Archiv für Bildende Kunst im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 (Kulturgeschichtliche Spaziergänge im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Bd.2), S.74-77.

See also

• List of German painters

External links

• Personal data and oil paintings by The Eckhardt-Gramatté-Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada
• "Works by Walter Gramatté". Zeno.org (in German).
• Walter Gramatté in the German National Library catalogue
• Paintings by Gramatté in the German Galerie Remmert und Barth