“These commercial travellers of art will never know the painter's pure…” — Sadakichi Hartmann

“These commercial travellers of art will never know the painter's pure delight, the contemplation of life, the aspiration to perfection, the lifting of beauty out of the dead pigment.”

Contrasting commerce with contemplative craft · The Whistler Book

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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