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THE MISSING LETTER (TO DR. SOLTA)
2012
Postage stamps and polyvinyl acetate glue (collage)
100cm x 81.5cm

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I found this envelope at a flea market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The contents are missing.

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Based on the information on the envelope, I researched on the internet and found the identity of the addressee:

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Dr Georg Renatus Solta (April 18, 1919 - May 2, 2005) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Balkan linguistics in the University of Vienna, Austria. He tried in vain to save his mentor, Norbert Jokl, from deportation to a concentration camp in 1942.

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Norbert Jokl (February 25, 1877 - probably May 1942) was an Austrian Albanologist of Jewsih descent who has been hailed as the father of Albanology.

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This letter was sent from Linz, Austria on February 14, 1944....

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....sent from Adolf Hitler's hometown on Valentine's Day in the midst of the Second World War.

IMMORTAL BELOVED       (2012-2013)

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