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Military, 1914-1915 (oil on canvas)

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XCL499975
Image title
Military, 1914-1915 (oil on canvas)
Artist
Hartley, Marsden (1877-1943) / American
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.5x63.5 (framed) 60.6x50.2 (unframed) cms
Image 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.

Photo credit
Gift of Professor Nelson Goodman / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / Berlin / Germany / Europe / flag / flag / cross / cubist / cubism / geometric / modernist / colourful / flags / prussian / american modernism / berlin abstraction / first world war / Painting / Mzpainting
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Largest available format 3592 × 4398 px 7 MB
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Large 3592 × 4398 px 304 × 372 mm 6.8 MB
Medium 837 × 1024 px 71 × 87 mm 1.4 MB

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