Portrait of a German Officer
Marsden Hartley · 1914
Why it's great
Flags, medals, an iron cross and bits of letters and numbers make a portrait of a person with no face. Marsden Hartley painted it in Berlin in 1914 in memory of his close friend Karl von Freyburg, a German soldier who was killed in the first months of World War I.
Where to see it
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Marsden Hartley was an American painter born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1877. He traveled to Paris and Berlin, where he made bold abstract paintings of flags, symbols and military insignia, and later returned to paint his native Maine. He died in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1943.
