Article: Man about Europe.(ESSAY)(Harry Count Kessler)(Biography)

THERE'S an arresting portrait of Harry Count Kessler, painted by Edvard Munch in 1906, that hangs in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. A handsome, mustached, fine-featured man looks at us from beneath a rakishly tilted white summer hat. Wearing a dark suit, leaning slightly on a stylish thin cane, Count Kessler is elegant and impeccable, and appears younger than his 38 years. His gaze is intelligent, quizzical, attractive, yet something about Kessler's pose suggests the fastidious remoteness of a very private individual. Who was Kessler, once called by W. H. Auden "probably the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived"--and why should readers of this journal, in particular, ...

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