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- Käthe Kollwitz 1867–1945
- Recipient
- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Title
- Letter from Käthe Kollwitz to Else Meidner
- Date
- 23 November 1932
- 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 20062/7/128/1/3
Description
[Transcription/translation]
23 November 1932
Dear Frau Meidner,
It was with great sympathy that I read your letter. Yes – the young women of today have it far harder than I had it in my day, when we were still able to take on outside help so that I could keep working. It was only when the children got ill that the work really had to wait.
Still, I would try to send something in for the state prize. It’s clear that your prospects are not great because there are so many submissions and the jurors tend to consider their own students from the academy. All the same! Do send plenty of work, really good and impactful work, also prints and drawings (but primarily paintings of course). Just being exhibited there is important. If you are somehow able to make money, you should do so. Stick at it! How nice to hear that your boy is well again.
Please send my regards to your husband also. Sincerely,
Käthe Kollwitz
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
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- Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
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- Correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/1 (8)
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- Letter from Käthe Kollwitz to Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128/1/3