Military, 1914-1915
by Marsden Hartley
Title
Military, 1914-1915
Artist
Marsden Hartley
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
This abstract portrait is a memorial tribute to one of the earliest casualties of the First World War, a German lieutenant named Karl von Freyburg with whom Hartley had been in love. The artist described von Freyburg’s death as an "unendurable agony," and created a series of deeply personal paintings in response. Typical of Hartley’s work of the period, the composition is full of symbols that function like a code to be deciphered. Here the shapes and colour patterns suggest flags, banners, targets, epaulets, and other military paraphernalia.
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January 18th, 2023
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