Karl Weschke 1925 – 2005 | Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/karl-weschke-32033
Artist page for Karl Weschke (1925 – 2005)
Weschke 1925 – 2005 Letter and questionnaire sent
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Artist page for Karl Weschke (1925 – 2005)
Weschke 1925 – 2005 Letter and questionnaire sent
was gloomy and reveal the emptiness of the letter I sent
was gloomy and reveal the emptiness of the letter I sent
9 September Dear Baroness Schey! Hanni has just walked past the window with a basketful of elderberries on her back. Why don’t you come down and cook them with Cilie? The sun’s come out again, and the white and yellow flowers are luxuriating in the light of paradise. One night I walked to Freundsberg and sat on the steps of the chapel. The beauty of the paths and flowers seems so much closer when you’re here with me. Last night I found that the postman had left two books at the kitchen window: one addressed to you, the other to …
thinking you must have asked a publisher to have it sent
[Transcription/translation] 9 November 1969 Dear Dr Hodin, I don’t own the telephone, just a line to the telephone downstairs, where anyone can listen in to what I’m saying!!! That’s why I can’t speak as freely as I should like, certainly not about sales. For that I’d have to go all the way down there. Remember that I live in furnished accommodation and that I really don’t have a home to speak of. This can hardly be of any interest, but I’m just explaining my situation. Does Dr Maass never ask after me? In a letter with stamps enclosed I asked …
about Love’ or a transcript of it, because what I sent
Tate glossary definition for mail art: Art movement based on the principle of sending small scale works through the postal service
Fulierová Mail art began in the 1960s when artists sent
Tate glossary definition for mail art: Art movement based on the principle of sending small scale works through the postal service
Fulierová Mail art began in the 1960s when artists sent
Compiled by Edith Thomas‘ solicitors. Some of the numbered documents are missing. Includes a copy of Schwitters hand-written will, letters from Ernst Schwitters, letters from galleries, agreements, lists of works and press cuttings.
Ernst Schwitters 4 May [1948] Photocopy of a letter sent
The case concerned the division of works by Kurt Schwitters to Edith Thomas and Ernst Schwitters after the artist’s death and includes files of correspondence and documents between Thomas and her lawyers; material used as evidence; and letters of support and press cuttings following the court case.
Ernst Schwitters 4 May [1948] Photocopy of a letter sent
Available online are various items selected from the Kurt Schwitters collection featuring writings, correspondence and photographs, particularly relating to Schwitters‘ relationship with Edith Thomas, and the court case between Edith and Kurt Schwitters‘ son, Ernst, regarding the division of Schwitters‘ works following his death. Items from this collection also available online are: private view cards and exhibition catalogues relating to exhibitions featuring Schwitters‘ work; photographs of Schwitters, and his family and friends; and photographs of his works and locations he visited. Further details on this collection are available on the archive catalogue.
Solicitors (Windermere, UK) 24 February 1949 Letter sent
Includes statements, drafts and extracts pinned together with final versions of notes, recorded interviews for television and radio and miscellaneous documents including political papers.
typescript version of a text regarding world peace sent