"... it gives me the opportunity to get to know Max Liebermann, whom I would like to visit."

You bid on two handwritten, signed letters ofArt historian and university teacher Walter Graeff (1876-1934).

directed to the writer Friedrich Freksa (1882-1955).

One letter dated 1914, the other undated. (Wikipedia: "The enormous fortune that he [Freska] inherited after the death of his father in 1913, he brought through within a year through speculation and a lavish lifestyle." The letters also deal with business matters, especially with problems in this regard.

Format: 28x21cm.

1.) Letter Munich, 20. July 1914.

Quotes: "[...] enclosed letter from Aku arrived yesterday. I am sending it along so that you can see for yourself how things are and then take further steps - or leave them alone. I do believe, however, that a personal discussion can still make a difference. While I don't think Aku's business stance will change much, other combinations may emerge. [...] Tomorrow, Tuesday, I'll still be taking photos in Augsburg (from 1-2 in the green house) [...]. Today I got half a dozen good shots at the Fuggern."

Scope: approx. a ¾ page written.

2.) Letter Berlin, Nollendorfstr. 7 II (undated).

Quotes: "Dear Freksa, I'm in Berlin for four days now and I've taken a room: so I can write a letter too. And you shall have the first. I decided quite suddenly to leave, unfortunately I couldn't speak to you anymore, otherwise I would have told you that I went to the lawyer and explained to him that I couldn't find any more money. He then said that he had made the proposal to offer 10% mainly because it would be a round sum, but he believed that a comparison on the basis of 9% could also be reached. I believe that the impossibility of raising more will emerge very clearly from this crooked number and will therefore only be beneficial to the settlement. Now let's wait and see.

Here I am with my friend K{???}ach, a lawyer and economist who has done a lot of work on the Kreuznach affair. I learned a lot from him about the bankruptcy.

Otherwise I often get together with the two painters whom you know and one of whom has looked through the translation. They provide my amusement and distraction. I also visited Grete King and yesterday we went to see the new Hugo vd Goes with her in the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum. It's a very beautiful picture. You were right to work so hard for it.

I also have to take part in a little company [...] tonight in a large company at Rings{?}. That's not my thing, but it gives me the opportunity to get to know Max Liebermann, whom I'd like to visit."

At the end about his further plans in Berlin ("but wants to rest a little from the eternal art history") and other cities as well as inquiries about Freksa's wife Margerethe and his sons. "To find out something about all this would be a source of pleasure, your faithful Walter Gräff."

Written on strong paper (watermarked "HAMMERPOST").

Scope: Almost 2 pages written.

Condition: Slightly browned and creased, with corner damage and small tears. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Order 5e/7

About Walter Gräff and Friedrich Freksa (source: wikipedia):

Walter Gräff (* 1876, † 1934 in Munich) was a German art historian and university teacher.

Life: Gräff studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University and was accepted into the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg in 1895. From 1908 he worked as a scientific assistant at the State Graphic Collection in the Alte Pinakothek and then went to the experimental institute and information center for painting techniques at the Technical University of Munich, which was founded in 1903 on the corner of Luisenstrasse and Gabelsbergerstrasse. He belonged to the German Society for Rational Painting Processes and used technical photography to examine paintings from 1916 at the latest. As early as 1930 in Rome, together with Alexander Eibner, he gave a lecture at a specialist conference on the scientific study and conservation of art objects. After Eibner's retirement, in 1932 he wrote the memorandum for an "investigation and research institute for paintings and other works of fine art". After the death of both, the experimental institute was dissolved.

He was married to Hanna Gräff.[3] He was only 58 years old.

Friedrich Freksa; actually Kurt Franz Georg Friedrich-Freksa (* 11. April 1882 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin; † 18 July 1955 in Berlin) was a German author and editor.

Life: Freksa was born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as the child of the manufacturer and merchant Georg Friedrich and his wife Klara, who later committed suicide. He has written drama, poetry, novels, detective stories, screenplays, radio plays and magazine articles. The son of a wholesaler studied in Berlin, Paris and Munich. He traveled to numerous European countries, lived at times as a freelance writer in Munich and Tübingen, later back in Berlin and was friends with Hanns Heinz Ewers. He had been married to the poet Margarete Beutler since 1907, from whom he already had a son, born in 1906 (Hans Florian, later director of the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen). The enormous fortune that he inherited after the death of his father in 1913, he brought through within a year through speculation and a lavish lifestyle. He served briefly in World War I and separated from his wife in 1925 (they never divorced until 1939). In 1924 he published a biography of Korvettenkapitän Hermann Ehrhardt, leader of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, under the title Captain Ehrhardt. adventures and destinies.

In 1907 Freksa had his first major stage success with the performance of the play Ninon de l'Enclos at the Residenz Theater in Munich. The pantomime Sumurun, which premiered in 1909 under the direction of Max Reinhardt, was filmed in 1920 by Ernst Lubitsch. Freksa's first novel Phosphorus (1911) satirically describes how a philistine falls on his head and turns into a bon vivant and philanderer (and back again). 1919/20 Freksa was co-editor of the satirical magazine Phosphor. Controversial was his 1931 book Druso, or The Stolen Human World, in which the enslavement of humanity by insect-like extraterrestrials was described.[1] In 1934, Druso also appeared in the American magazine Wonder Stories.

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Ninon de l'Enclos. A game from the Baroque era. Georg Müller, Munich 1907.

The Kingdom of Epirus. Comedy in five acts. Georg Müller, Munich 1908.

Epigrams of Clement Marot, ed. by Friedrich Freksa, translated by Margarete Beutler. Georg Müller, Munich, Munich 1908.

Josef Ruederer and Cloud Cuckoo Land. A polemic. Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1908.

The Torch of Eros. A cycle of drama. Reiss, Berlin 1909.

Fat Caesar. A tragic comedy. Reiss, Berlin 1911.

The Book of Phosphorus. With plates by Emil Preetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1911.

Phosphorus. Novel. With 25 drawings by Emil Preetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.

history. Georg Müller, Munich 1912.

Erwin Bernstein's theatrical broadcast. A Berlin theater novel. In two volumes. Georg Müller, Munich, Leipzig 1913.

Behind the ramp. theatrical glosses. Georg Müller, Munich 1913.

God's return. Novel. 1. part: fire. Fleischl, Berlin 1916.

The Judgment of Seleucus. A fairy tale from the Greek era. Dramatic poem in 3 acts. Liecke, Munich 1917.

Freedom. Ullstein, Berlin 1919.

turnaround. novellas. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.

debauchery. The little story, part two. Cover drawing by Emil Praetorius. Georg Müller, Munich 1919.

The land of normal people short story in: Library of the Munich youth - Volume 3 "Fantastic Stories". Munich 1919.

The Wanderer into Nothing. Novel. Georg Müller, Munich, 1920

Against the Kautsky Mache - Human justification of Wilhelm II. According to his marginal notes in the files of the Foreign Office. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Tyll Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster. Reworked and ed. by Friedrich Freksa. With 10 hand-colored pictures by Ludwig Bock. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Prashna's secret. crime novel. Rösl, Munich 1920.

Caesar's hour. A worldly game. Georg Müller, Müller 1921.

Phosphorus. Novel. Thespis, Berlin 1921.

The Mystery of the Indian Prashna. Novel. Ernst Keil's successor (August Scherl), Leipzig 1923.

Li Tai Po. A poem. With ten etchings and eleven drawings by Richard von Below. Georg Müller, Munich 1923.

Captain Ehrhardt Adventures and Destinies. Scherl, Berlin 1924.

The red hair dryer. Novel. Grethlein, Leipzig, Zurich 1925

Putsch on Ithaca. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1926.

The defensive lady. Small volume of stories with 12 stories, including the visit to Potsdam, Frau von Fleury's banquet, the prisoner of Pharmacusa, Hannibal's farewell to Italy, the bishop's house, Truelsen's Övelgönne, Frau Dorlebusch and others Georg Müller, Munich 1927.

A girl travels to happiness. Sieben-Stäbe-Verlag, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1927.

waste and profits. Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin 1928.

The Hussar from the Rheinsberg. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1930

Kaufmannskinder, a novel from the turn of the Berlin bourgeoisie 1895-1925. Sieben-Stäbe-Verlag, Berlin 1930.

The King's War Commissar. Novel. Scherl, Berlin 1931.

Druso or: The stolen human world. Novel. Reckendorf, Berlin 1931.

Garibaldi, the sword of Italy. Kyffhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1940.

Oh Krueger. His life - a fight against England. Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1941.

From yesterday - to tomorrow. Werner, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1942.

Colonel Lumpus. Hesperus, Nuremberg 1944.

Berlin travel experience. 1919, in: Robert N. Bloch: Beyond Dreams. Strange stories from the beginning of the century, Frankfurt a. M. (suhrkamp paperback 1595) 1990, pp. 97–110.