‘‘Letter from Hans Werner Geerdts to J.P. Hodin‘, Hans Werner Geerdts, recipient: Dr J. P. Hodin, 17 January 1979‘, Hans Werner Geerdts, recipient: Dr J. P. Hodin, 17 January 1979 – Tate Archive | Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/items/tga-20062-7-67-1-6/letter-from-hans-werner-geerdts-to-j-p-hodin
[Transcription/translation] 17.1.1979 my dear joseph, isn’t it funny how these problems, these questions, just keep coming up, from generation to generation! i’ve just put down your brühl’sche terrasse [brühl terrace] and i’m still moved by its relevance! certainly, the privations, the purely economic privations, are unfamiliar to me, but my student days in stuttgart weren’t so different: working at the brewery to earn some money, working here, there and everywhere just to survive! … and all that – quite miraculously! – having already survived the war… just thinking about it induces painful nausea in me… let’s say no more about …
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