Footnotes

¹ Receipt of this postcard and of OJ 11/36, [22] of the same date, as well the sending of Schenker’s non-extant reply are recorded in the diary entry for September 17, 1925: “Von Hammer (zwei gleichlautende pneum. Karten: möchte morgen für eine halbe Stunde kommen. — An Hammer (K.): nenne einige Möglichkeiten.” (“From Hammer (two pneumatic postcards with the same content): he would like to come tomorrow for a half hour. — To Hammer (postcard): a few possible times.”).

² The visit took place on September 18: “Hammer von 11–12^h; korrigirt noch, signiert die Zeichnung. Bitte ihn für Montag um 5^h zur Jause.“ (“Hammer from 11:00–12 noon; is still making corrections, signs the drawing. I ask him to come for teatime on Monday at 5:00 o'clock.”). Hammer was making corrections to the second plate for the mezzotint portrait; see OJ 11/36, [20] of September 11, 1925. Hammer’s next visit is described in the diary entry for September 21: “Hammer von 5–8^h. Er bringt die Platte u. zwei Abzüge u. berät sich sogar mit uns über so manches. Lie-Liechen stellt sich überraschend gut ein, was mir die Möglichkeit gibt, mich weiter nicht um die Sache zu bekümmern. Hammer scheinen einige ihrer Bemerkungen von Nutzen zu sein. Im Gespräch sucht Hammer wieder Analogien von Musik u. Malerei festzustellen.” (“Hammer from 5:00 to 8:00 o’clock. He brings the plate and two prints and even confers on a few things with us. Lie-Liechen interacts surprisingly well, which gives me the opportunity not to worry about the matter any further. Several of her observations seem to have been useful to Hammer. In our discussion, Hammer again tries to identify analogies between music and painting.”).
The mezzotint portrait was briefly discussed again during Hammer’s last visit before leaving Vienna (diary, September 30, 1925): “½5–½7^h Hammer, um Abschied zu nehmen, reist nach Florenz. […] Wir kommen überein, die Frage der Drucke bis zum Februar zu vertagen.” (“4:30–6:30 o’clock Hammer, to bid farewell, is traveling to Florence. […] We agree to postpone the question of the prints until February.”). A detailed record of the discussion of politics and religion that took place during the September 30 visit is included in the diary entry of that date.

Commentary

Format

Printed postcard: holograph (uncial and Roman) recipient address, recto; holograph (uncial) salutation, message, valediction, and signature, verso

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)

Rights Holder

Heirs and representatives of Viktor Hammer

License

Permission to publish granted by the executor of the estate of Carolyn Reading Hammer October 14, 2013. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, at schenkercorrespondence (at) mus (dot) cam (dot) uk

Digital version created: 2022-06-23
Last updated: 2011-02-12