KARL TRATT

works

The prologue
Self-portrait, drawing, 42 x 29 cm
Half nude with bicorn, cabbage drawing, 54 x 35 cm
Portrait sketch
Portrait of a girl looking to the left, pencil drawing, 50 x 32 cm, estate stamp
Seated female nude, pencil drawing, 66.5 x 38.5 cm
Three figures, paper chalk
Two women
Self, ink drawing, 59 x 44 cm, estate stamp
Standing, charcoal drawing, 64 x 49 cm, estate stamp
Self-portrait
Sitting woman, charcoal drawing, 58 x 37 cm, estate stamp
Two figures, ink drawing, 66.5 x 38.5 cm

biography

Karl Tratt (December 15, 1900 in Sindlingen - December 16, 1937 in Frankfurt am Main)

In 1924, Karl Tratt began his studies at the Frankfurt Städelschule with Franz Charles Delavillastudied from 1926 in the master class of Max Beckmann. Karl Tratt's paintings follow in the footsteps of his teacher, later also influenced by his increasing preoccupation with his work Ernst Ludwig Kirchner'swhom he visited in exile in Davos in 1936, where the Frankfurt native had been diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1934.

In 1936, Karl Tratt left the sanatorium without success and returned to Frankfurt in 1936, where his brother took him in. Under the pseudonym "Vinzent Caté", he began to write down his conditions and to compose stories.

Tratt dies in Frankfurt in 1937. The gallery shows oil paintings and drawings.

literature

Hans-Jürgen Fittkau: From the master class of Max Beckmann.
The Frankfurt painter Karl Tratt (1900-1937)
VDG publishing house, Weimar 2011
134 pages, 25 pages of illustrations