Marsden Hartley
(January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) U.S.A.
Painter, critic, essayist, and poet
Born in Lewiston, Maine, as Edmund Hartley, he adopted his stepmother's maiden surname as his first name. In 1913, hartley visited Berlin and Munich and met several members of the Blaue Reiter group. Even after the the outbreak of WWI in august 1914 Hartley continued to live in Germany and only after the death of Karl von Freyburg did he return to the US.
There has been considerable interest in his friendship with this young soldier, a German lieutenant killed in the first days of World War I, including numerous essays which identify then as lovers. Throughout his career, Hartley continued to explore his particular vision of the homosocial bond.
One of his paintings: Madawaska Acadian Light Heavy (1940)
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