{{short description|German painter}} [[File:Werner Schramm.jpg|thumb|200px|Self-portrait of Werner Schramm ("Selbstbildnis", 1970)]] '''Werner Schramm''' (1898–1970) was a [[List of German painters|German painter]]. He was born as a son of merchants in [[Duisburg]], [[German Empire|Germany]]. After a classical education, he entered the School of Decorative Arts in Düsseldorf. In 1919 he began painting again after having been interrupted by the [[First World War]]. He was influenced by German [[Expressionism]] and also by the first expressions of abstract art. The discovery of the [[Isenheim Altarpiece]] of [[Matthias Grünewald]], which was temporarily exhibited at the [[Alte Pinakothek|Munich Pinacothek]], was a revelation to him and he started his first attempts in [[Renaissance]] techniques: a well-performed drawing on a priming of chalk or plaster with a mixture of oil and yolk of an egg as paint.
In 1920 he was appointed decorator at the theatre of Düsseldorf. After his marriage in 1925 to [[Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann|Liselotte Heckmann]] he lived for a year near [[Florence]] and then five years in [[Paris]]. During that time he journeyed many times across France. In 1929 he went to Spain. From 1931 he lived with his family in [[Düsseldorf]], [[West Germany]], where he died in 1970.
== Sources == * Werner Schramm, Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann, Otto Brües: ''Werner Schramm und Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann''. Ratingen 1965, ASIN: B0000BNIBW * Werner Schramm, Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann, Otto Brües: ''Werner Schramm und Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (2nd edition)''. Ratingen 1976 * Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann: ''Werner Schramm, Liselotte Heckmann — Bühnenbilder und Figurinen 1920-1925''. 1991, {{ISBN|978-3-929945-04-1}} * Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann: ''Jugenderinnerungen'' in Bernd Braumüller: ''Draeger — Valette, Zwei Berliner Familien und Ihre Nachkommen''. Rotenburg 2000
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