“The true artist has ever preferred to worship his lofty and often…” — Sadakichi Hartmann

“The true artist has ever preferred to worship his lofty and often narrow ideals in poverty and obscurity, rather than to waste his genius on the vain world.”

Ideal of obscure fidelity over worldly success · Critical essays

Sadakichi Hartmann

About Sadakichi Hartmann

8 November 1867–22 November 1944

Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born on 8 November 1867 on the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, a narrow strip of land that for generations had been Japan’s only window onto the West. His father, Carl Herman Oskar Hartmann, was a Prussian merchant trading in that tightly regulated enclave; his mother…

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