Richard Diebenkorn Correspondence
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Artist's Postcard
Date:
23 September 1983 Current owner:
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation RD number:
RDFA.235 Description
Postcard sent from Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn to the artist's mother, Dorothy Diebenkorn, while in Germany, 23 September 1983
Transcription:
9/23 [1983] Dear Mom, / How does it grab you that / the Diebenkorns left Sweden / in 1700 to settle in LAAGE / in the state of MECKLENBERG. / Thence to Hamburg. Dieben / is the Swedish word for / grain or corn stacked in the / form of a house. [drawing of a house] The / Hamburg Diebenkorns are / interesting and charming. / A Diebenkorn is the mayor / of ITZEHOE 23KM NW of / Hamburg. We are in / Berlin now, E. Berlin yester- / day. Looking at painting. / Think about you. Love, / P. + R.
Transcription:
9/23 [1983] Dear Mom, / How does it grab you that / the Diebenkorns left Sweden / in 1700 to settle in LAAGE / in the state of MECKLENBERG. / Thence to Hamburg. Dieben / is the Swedish word for / grain or corn stacked in the / form of a house. [drawing of a house] The / Hamburg Diebenkorns are / interesting and charming. / A Diebenkorn is the mayor / of ITZEHOE 23KM NW of / Hamburg. We are in / Berlin now, E. Berlin yester- / day. Looking at painting. / Think about you. Love, / P. + R.