# Werner Schramm

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German painter

Self-portrait of Werner Schramm ("Selbstbildnis", 1970)

**Werner Schramm** (1898–1970) was a [German painter](/source/List_of_German_painters). He was born as a son of merchants in [Duisburg](/source/Duisburg), [Germany](/source/German_Empire). 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](/source/First_World_War). He was influenced by German [Expressionism](/source/Expressionism) and also by the first expressions of abstract art. The discovery of the [Isenheim Altarpiece](/source/Isenheim_Altarpiece) of [Matthias Grünewald](/source/Matthias_Gr%C3%BCnewald), which was temporarily exhibited at the [Munich Pinacothek](/source/Alte_Pinakothek), was a revelation to him and he started his first attempts in [Renaissance](/source/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 Heckmann](/source/Liselotte_Schramm-Heckmann) he lived for a year near [Florence](/source/Florence) and then five years in [Paris](/source/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](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf), [West Germany](/source/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-929945-04-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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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