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Marsden Hartley
The Warriors
1913
Writing again in his unpublished autobiography in 1924, Hartley relates his time in Germany:
“the Pariserplatz was packed, jammed to the stoops and windows with those huge cuirassiers of the Kaiser’s special guard - all in white, white leather breeches skin tight - high plain enamel boots - those gleaming blinding medieval breast plates of silver and brass - making the eye go black when the sun glanced like a spear as the bodies moved - inspiring helmets with the imperial eagle - and the white manes hanging down - there was six foot of youth under all this garniture… it went into an abstract picture of soldiers riding into the sun - a fact to take place not long after - for all of these went into the sun and never came back.”
(Source: ktkeating, via knappy-head)
