Portrait of a German Officer

Question 0

Who painted Portrait of a German Officer?

Answer 0

Marsden Hartley

Question 1

Where was Marsden Hartley born and when?

Answer 1

In 1877 in Cleveland

Question 2

Where did Hartley receive his training in art?

Answer 2

In New York

Question 3

Whose support did Hartley gain in New York, this person encouraged Hartley to move to New York?

Answer 3

Alfred Steiglitz

Question 4

Where did Stieglitz show Harltey’s works for the first time?

Answer 4

At 291 Gallery

Question 5

When did Hartley travel to Paris?

Answer 5

1912

Question 6

Who did Hartley develop a friendship with in Paris?

Answer 6

Gertrude Stein

Question 7

What tenets did Hartley react to in his Expressionist paintings?

Answer 7

Futurism

Question 8

When did Hartley travel to Berlin?

Answer 8

In 1913

Question 9

Hartley became interested in the works of what German Expressionists in Berlin?

Answer 9

Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc

Question 10

When did Hartley return to the United States?

Answer 10

In 1916 because of the war

Question 11

What did the series of works by Hartley show?

Answer 11

His fascination with the pageantry of war and his rejection of its destructive forces

Question 12

The paintings by Hartley that show his fascination with war are known as his?

Answer 12

War Motifs

Question 13

Hartley’s War Motifs reveal the influence of what movements?

Answer 13

Cubism and Expressionism

Question 14

Where did Hartley live after the First World War?

Answer 14

In New Mexico, Mexico, Bermuda, Bavaria, Nova Scotia, the East Coast and the south of France

Question 15

Where did Hartley settle in 1937?

Answer 15

In Maine

Question 16

When did Hartley die?

Answer 16

I 1943

Question 17

Portrait of a German Officer requires the viewer to reflect on the meaning of?

Answer 17

Portraiture as much as a genre

Question 18

How is the German Officer evoked in the title in the painting?

Answer 18

By symbolic references

Question 19

What is the palette in Portrait of a German Officer limited to?

Answer 19

Black , white, gray, red, gold, blue and green

Question 20

What is at the center of Portrait of German Officer?

Answer 20

The black and white Iron Cross within a yellow triangle

Question 21

When was the Iron Cross first awarded and where?

Answer 21

In Prussia during the Napoleonic wars

Question 22

What colors in Portrait of German Officer reflect on Germany?

Answer 22

Red, black, white, green, yellow and blue

Question 23

What specific officer does Portrait of a German Officer make reference to?

Answer 23

Karl van Freyburg

Question 24

When was Karl von Freyburg killed?

Answer 24

In October 1914 at the outbreak of the war

Question 25

How is Karl von Freyburg shown in Portrait of a German Officer?

Answer 25

His initials K.v.F. in the lower left corner near the number 24 which was his age at the time of his death also four, the number of Freyberg’s regiment is shown in the center of the composition

Question 26

What is the e in Portrait of a German Officer represent?

Answer 26

A class insignia or Hartley’s middle name Edmund

Question 27

Who do scholars speculate that Hartley had a romantic relationship with?

Answer 27

Karl von Freyberg

Question 28

When did Hartley write to Gertrude Stein expressing admiration for the urban displays of Berlin?

Answer 28

In August 1913

Question 29

How did Hartley capture the energy of modern military spectacle in Berlin?

Answer 29

By incorporating bright colors and intersecting forms in his works

Question 30

What movement did Hartley reject in favor of what other movement?

Answer 30

Futurism in favor of the more organic forms and symbolic language of Expressionism

Question 31

What city was known for its lively homosexual subculture?

Answer 31

Berlin

Question 32

What did Hartley’s later works while in Maine depict?

Answer 32

Landscapes and seascapes of Maine

Question 33

Why did Hartley change his name from Edmund?

Answer 33

To reflect his affinity for her step-mother

Question 34

The aesthetic approach of what movement was rejected by Hartley?

Answer 34

Futurism