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THE MISSING LETTER (TO DR. SOLTA)
2012
Postage stamps and polyvinyl acetate glue (collage)
100cm x 81.5cm
I found this envelope at a flea market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The contents are missing.
Based on the information on the envelope, I researched on the internet and found the identity of the addressee:
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.
Norbert Jokl (February 25, 1877 - probably May 1942) was an Austrian Albanologist of Jewsih descent who has been hailed as the father of Albanology.
This letter was sent from Linz, Austria on February 14, 1944....
....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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