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- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- [1944–5]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
- Reference
- TGA 20062/4/199/1/8
Description
[Translation/transcription]
Dear Hodinus,
Thank you for your article. Once you have incorporated the few penstrokes that I have added for clarification I shall not say a word against it.
Painting political pictures in England involves more than just speaking out against the Nazis in Germany. This goes for all those who have found safe refuge here. People here need to be told that the difference between Nazi and democracy exists only in the insular imagination, if indeed at all.
I am aware of the famous 'degrees in which we differ'. But firstly fascism is not yet dead and then the differences may become less clear over time. We always try to keep abreast of this process. Our leader Churchill helps. So if there is still time, please incorporate my quiet insinuations into your work and by so doing show your Swiss and Swedish friends that I am not a refugee but a human being in full possession of my critical faculties.
A swift recovery to you and further global demise for the rest,
Yours,
O. Kokoschka
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Correspondence by sender TGA 20062/4 (275)
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- Correspondence between Oskar Kokoschka and J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199 (112)
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- Correspondence from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin, 1938-48 TGA 20062/4/199/1 (25)
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- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199/1/8