Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Frankfurt am Main

[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 …
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[Transcription/translation] Deceased dearly beloved, How frightfully your gaze fixes me! Your finger, robbed of flesh, Points at me threateningly, Your eye sockets peer in darkly – What did I do in life That you should be so dreadful in death? Was the loving homage of my friendship, The years of reverent affection, My bending to your will So incomprehensible? You were often stone cold when you came to me, And from your spell I’m yet to break free. When I go to your grave now, weeping, I see you laughing down there in your coffin. Your heart in life my …
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[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 …
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[Transcription/translation] 10 January 1970 Dear Dr Hodin, Since I think I owe you an explanation regarding those drawings that haven’t been sent to your American friend in the USA, I shall do it here. The reason is that I’ve had some awful experiences selling work to foreign buyers, and I wanted to avoid any further stress. When one agrees to buy something one generally has pay for it first, before one receives the goods. For some reason this doesn’t apply to works of art!!! One then has to write letters begging for payment or the return of the work. It …
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[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 …
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[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 …
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Artist questionnaire completed by Else Meidner with details of her life and career. [Translation/transcription] I. LIFE AND WORK DATA Full name: Date and Place of Birth: Art Schools visited: Dates, Names of Teachers: Else Meidner 2 September 1901, Berlin 1918 Lützowstrasse Studio of Professor Meyer 1920 Lewin-Funke Studio, Hardenbergstrasse 1923 School of Applied Arts, Prinz Albrecht Strasse 1924 Steinplatz Academy evening course 1925 Lewin-Funke Studio, class of Ludwig Meidner Year of marriage to L. Meidner: 1927 Son David born 1929 (lives in Erez in Israel) Advantages connected with education in art schools: influences on further work: My father (who was …
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[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 …
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[Transcription/translation] A DIALOGUE WITH DEATH Death: (Skeleton in top-hat and overcoat walks into my studio) How do you do? Me: (Terrified and trembling, I try to speak but can’t make a sound.) Death: Why such horror, why such frightful fear, when you spend so much time preoccupied with me, when you’ve been drawing me and carrying me around in your thoughts since childhood? I’m flattered that you’ve never forgotten me and I’m almost inclined to believe that you’ve fallen in love with me and wanted to welcome me with… Me: (Interrupting) Get out, Death, get out! Death: Do calm down, …
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[Transcription/translation] 1 August 1969 ‘Who never spent the darksome hours weeping for the morrow, he knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.’ Dr Hodin, Dr Hodin, I’ve been thinking about you all this time, but you write that you’re tired and weary, and I myself have not been well and I’m finding it hard to write. I’ve been terribly depressed. What you said in your letter was of course unfair and not entirely true. Two years ago I had a visit from someone who’d been to see you. This person told me, to my embarrassment, that all your walls are covered …
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