“I wrote the first generally accepted History of American Art—it is not…” — Sadakichi Hartmann

“I wrote the first generally accepted History of American Art—it is not likely that an alien enemy would devote ten years of his life to such a task.”

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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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