Hans Richter
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Hans Richter
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/470
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Hans Richter(Sender)
Creator(s): Richter, Hans (1888-1976)
Site Location(s): Created in - Locarno, Switzerland, Switzerland( 46.1709, 8.79953 ); Created in - Southbury, Connecticut, USA( 41.4815, -73.2132 ); Created in - Konigswinter, Germany( 50.6773, 7.19245 )
Date(s): 1956 0 1969
Size and medium: 2 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/705262
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains 4 letters to Herbert Read from Hans Richter and 1 postcard. A letter written in 1969 addressed to 'Cher amie', to remember Read's birthday, is presumably to Margaret Read. 1 letter from 1968 is in part a original small collage by Richter, with the first page written on the verso. Richter also asks Read to recommend 'a good art magazine' in which it might be possible for him to publish his recollections of Viking Eggeling, and to correct a previously published and 'haphazardly written' article on Eggeling.
1 letter from 1956 encloses a typescript of 'personal remembrances' of Fernand Leger, 'a dear friend' of Richter. Two photographs, of Leger, and of Richter and Yves Tanguy are included in the file. Richter offers Read the use of the typescript and looks forward to seeing him at the annual Eranos meeting in Switzerland.
Letters from 1967 and 1968 are chiefly solicitous for Read's health, and talk more generally about age and illness with reference to Richter himself, and also to Naum Gabo. Richter writes that Read is a 'courageous man. With all the sufferings you have gone through: to keep this marvellous eveness [sic] of mind.'
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