The Great Anxiety (Self-Portrait, in Three-Quarter Profile to the Right) (Die große Angst [Selbstportrat, Kopf im Halbprofil nach rechts]), 1918

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.9 x 24.1 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 40.1 x 30.7 cm (15 13/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Eckhardt 1932, no. 118

Accession Number

1989.80.3

Artists / Makers

Walter Gramatté (artist) German, 1897 - 1929

unidentified (printer)

Gustav Kiepenheuer (publisher) German, 1880 - 1949

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Die Grosse Angst; lower right in graphite: WalterGramatte' 18; lower left in plate: 1918 Mai; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Gramatte Die Grosse Angs

Marks and Labels

BS: DIE SCHAFFENDEN:
s Ruth Cole Kainen's mark]

Provenance

(Weyhe Gallery, New York); Jacob Kainen [1909-2001], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4737), purchased 1972; gift to NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Weyhe Gallery

Bibliography

1932: Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932.

1985: NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 61, repro. p.84.