‘‘Papers of Josef Paul Hodin‘, collection owner: Dr J. P. Hodin, 1885–2000s‘, collection owner: Dr J. P. Hodin, 1885–2000s – Tate Archive | Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-20062/papers-of-josef-paul-hodin?page=17
Josef Paul Hodin (1905-95) was an art critic and novelist. Born in Prague in 1905, he read Law at Charles University before leaving Czechoslovakia to pursue a literary career in Germany. Moving in artistic circles he met and befriended artists and spend time at their studios. The declining political situation in Europe presented an increasingly dangerous situation for Hodin and he was forced to leave Germany for Paris, and thence to his first wife Birgit Akesson’s native Sweden in 1935. In Sweden Hodin became a respected art critic and regularly contributed articles to art reviews such as ‚Konstrevy‘ and ‚Ord …
With a second home in Cornwall Hodin also took a special interest in what was happening