Art Review: Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Roberta Smith
GERMANY---Before Jasper Johns or Jackson Pollock, there was Marsden Hartley, America’s first great modern painter of the 20th century. He achieved this distinction in Paris and most of all in Berlin between early 1912 and late 1915. These canvases are memorials to Karl von Freyburg, the young German officer — possibly the great love of Hartley’s life — who was killed in the first weeks of World War I. Hartley’s world-class status is confirmed by “Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings, 1913-1915,” an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie here that should thrill and surprise even the most devoted Hartley fan. [link]
The exhibition in Berlin ended on June 29, but will travel only to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in August. It should however be traveling to every state where same-sex marriage is in debate including Indiana where his reinterpretation of the Three Kings hangs as "The Friends."
By Roberta Smith
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| "The Warriors" (1913) by Marden Hartley |
The exhibition in Berlin ended on June 29, but will travel only to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in August. It should however be traveling to every state where same-sex marriage is in debate including Indiana where his reinterpretation of the Three Kings hangs as "The Friends."
