Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: elsen

[Transcription/translation] 5 May 1969 Dear Dr Hodin! Hopefully the award of the honorary doctorate will have brought you all joy you deserve. I wanted to tell you that I was terribly stressed both before and during the exhibition, and although I regard every exhibition as a day of judgement, this time it really was terrible!!! I think I must have said all sorts of incomprehensible things when I spoke to you on the telephone. This was just me trying to be funny, my attempt to cope with the intolerable stress through humour. I hope that’s what you took it for. …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 21 September 1970 To be sung to the tune of ‘Ännchen von Tharau’: O, Hodin of Swiss Cottage, If he were mine how I would boast, Of all the people in the world It’s him I love the most. I sang this down the telephone, but they’d put me through to the wrong number. Someone said: ‘You have a lovely voice.’ Unfortunately it wasn’t you. I promptly hung up. It was your number I dialled though. The enclosed card shows that you meant to come and see me in September. I waited, then I telephoned again because I have …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 30 July 1975 Dear Dr Hodin, I’ve always told myself that if I must be the fool, I shall be the good fool and not the bad fool! I refuse to accept that I wrote too soon, for you suggested the monograph a year ago, when I didn’t dare undertake anything because it was too expensive. I should have liked to have had back the letters from Ludwig that I lent you for your book; you forgot to give them back to me. It seems I was right to have buried all hope years ago. I did not deserve …
Meidner Correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 20 April 1969 Dear Dr Hodin, I’m sending you here the newspaper with poem and self-portrait. I have thanked Dr Maass and asked for a few copies, but no reply as yet. Perhaps he has none. Also enclosed here is a letter from the critic Ludwig Kunz (Amsterdam), which goes with the article on Herbert Ihering, which I sent you with the contract from Dr Sabais. You didn’t mention it. It’s written in Dutch, and I can’t read it. Could you? And actually I am very disappointed and sorry to hear that Dr Sabais won’t be at the exhibition …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 27 November 1968 Dear Dr Hodin, If I now repeat and say to you: ‘Those who forget so much good grace one tends to regard with scornful face,’ you will call me a parrot! My letter vexed you, but that really was the last thing I wanted! You did in fact say something about a possible exhibition, though that may have been before your article. I have been taking a dessert-spoon of the said article like medicine every three hours, and you ask me whether I’ve read it! You may well have read the question in my last letter …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[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 …
Hodin Letter from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 9 June 1973 For Dr Hodin, who is my Berlioz! Heine had been lying on what he called his ‘mortuary mattress’ for years, and no-one ever came to visit him. Then the arrival of Berlioz was announced. Heine called out to him as he came through the door: ‘Berlioz, you always were original! When Liebermann was painting Professor Sauerbruch he suddenly stopped and said to him: ‘You doctors have it good!’ Sauerbruch was taken aback. ‘How so?’ he asked. Liebermann answered: ‘Your mistakes end up six feet under, whereas we have to hang ours on the walls for all …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 21 May 1959 Dear Doctor Hodin, The languid nude (reclining with feet up) that you chose is now part of your collection. I shall exhibit the painting first, then after the exhibition it will go to you. Hoping that will be fine with you and that this nude too will be reproduced, as we discussed, and with sincere thanks for all your efforts, Yours, EM
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

[Transcription/translation] 30 March 1969 De profundis Dear Dr Hodin, I’ve been suffering so much on account of my paintings recently that I no longer know what to do. I can’t go on. The paintings have been stood there under sheets for years. But when I look at them I’m convinced they have culture. But who wants that? There are no hard, fat lines around my nudes, portraits and landscapes. Their iridescent light and their tonal values just don’t conform to the taste of our age. But they’re beautifully painted. Is coarseness beautiful? But our age is coarse, and art has …
Meidner Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P.

Contains a small selection of letters and written pieces by Else Meidner including – Includes a letter sent by Kathe Kollwitz to Else Meidner in 1932.
Hodin Else Meidner, recipient: Dr J. P.