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- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 9 June 1973
- 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 20062/7/128/2/31
Description
[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 to criticise!’
Kind regards, dear Berlioz, from your old lady painter,
Else Meidner
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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- Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2 (17)
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- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2/31