Carl sadakichi hartmann biography definition

American art critic and poet (1867–1944)

Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (November 8, 1867 – November 22, 1944) was an American art critic, poet, and anarchist.

Biography

Hartmann, born on the artificial island of Dejima, Nagasaki, to a Japanese mother Osada Hartmann (who died soon after childbirth) and German businessman Carl Herman Oskar Hartmann and raised in Germany, arrived in Philadelphia in 1882 and became an American citizen in 1894.^[1] An important early participant in modernism, Hartmann was a friend of such diverse figures as Walt Whitman, Stéphane Mallarmé and Ezra Pound.

From his experience of having known Walt Whitman, considered one of the great poets of the 19th century, he wrote Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895). He also wrote a collection of poetry in homage to Mallarmé, Naked Ghosts (1898).^[2]

Around 1905, Hartmann was an occasional performer at the New York City Miner's Theater.

His act involved a device which