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Else Meidner

Poem by Else Meidner

c.1970

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Created by
Else Meidner 1901–1987
Title
Poem by Else Meidner
Date
c.1970
Description
[Transcription/translation]

Is love not always the same?
As birth and death are always the same,
Eternal variations, primordial tune!
Music primordial, sound and roar,
Which genius alone can hear and score.

Else Meidner

1923
Format
Document - writings
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 20062/7/128/1/30

Archive context

  • Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
    • Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
      • Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
        • Correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/1 (8)
          • Poem by Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128/1/30
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