STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2370, sig. 109-12/15

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UINSEREMI JDSEF HIDIFMIANN High honor p-ts-goso-pgoopgopsgogccycsc-cgggstcccsctccgccsMindener Bollslhulen boys who had learned all 0806-0R0-0506-5060500-030R0500-008-0808-DR06-05060-0R00-08003060 without instruction according to models in the for Josef Hofmann The eighty-five-year-old! Kunsthandlungen bie Aquarelltechnik, so mir bas was nothing new. How often did ic stand, if I wanted to look for something at the domestic Malver- Wen Prague from murde our belt Josef, with the X Hofmann elle grosse marriage zutell. The Deut- Ek. K ar Is b a d, 18. March 194s. The fine house and garden in the Karlsbaber lodge, to see how one has a brick-like Karls-lniveefilät ihu in her honor- Meran sizt the poet, researcher and native- dach painting tomorrow 85 years old, and the clouds spared etc. Ünd burgher ernanni. The telegram guide Josef Hofmann and observed by this living Hofmanns Unterrichot located above the valley gave a wealth of meaning: siz from the brinks in the homeland and the world. In this gin-sight, in the same manner as a faithful vernacular, he is allowed to watch and to take a decision on the official curriculum, according to which he must proceed in Kaclskad., absolutely not to live up to the German Charles University in Prague, which he was speaking to his part. There were jogar in the freehand drawing - to prepare them for Yrem yeutigen 85th birth date. nn only phonographs prescribed and geo-herlehsten Glüeknünjehe. The univerfity of ver- metric bodies, all of them nodh gypsum models, Because everything, everything that is run today but no teething after nature like lends Fhnen The burden of a chreu citizen in recognition of Zhr's high merits for the gen and fights, was of course also very limited in n a b native vrlkskunde of the Egerland and Hofmann's youth and man's time. But Sofmann around the home-aldichlung. already the Barole jeines militant knew to educate us troy curricula already quite in today's sense. We worked far The Rector about Deuifchen Karls-Univerfität: Life. As educators, as community-, more with Pinjel and Farhe, than it in the gez. Buntruh." People's and homeland leaders, when Kundiger schools were common domals, and also bas geo- of Bolkstum and keeper home- 8 de d The state fetetary Karl Hermann Franklichen customs and weistums, as for which still some examples are mentioned. to Jojef Eejrann ebenjalls a Glücd- If cylinder, cone stump etc. on a scrubbing telegram, which has rimming workmates: Schristian and dialect poet, ais follies lehrplanmäßig were depicted, "Very venerable dear Mr. Hofmaun! constant fighter in the twilight of the CO-DSOO-pSOR-pEOR-DRORO-PSO still came a treatment in colors; a Zu Jrem 85. Geburistag I pass through day, always it was about the appropriate form of use from the life Yhnen my most hospitable desires. They Wefen "German" and its preservation. There was a brass screw bazu painted, a funnel made of fink sheet metal or we have drawn with Zhren volhskundliche Forfchungen A lifetime he stood in the foreground above painted gothic glass window pattern and with Khren home engravings unferer Batergrunde der Kümpse um Selbststhaltung or also circle and elipse fillings for Ein- u s qun o and Selbftbelegung unserem Heimat, laying work in Sprudelstein nadh own Egerland jür all times a valuable and are or ever thought about frames to unflidhes Berk. He always wished them as small particles of the work in the feerschrift yhns, that she saw in full frieze the great jiegrelche of Germany. End of the opposite shver Kampses er- jormen. Yes also the jade plaster models was brought to life in the Prussians' entry of 1866, in which with the brush. And free live uud of a you love Heinat in Frie who can serve on all sides. We had already in herz- VinselÜbungen. Ic he= fight for the liberation of German Ber- inner me still, as we in the silence of the eastern lichst comradeship and with an Egerlünder "Siegelt greets you one from Judaism, in the dispute against Litenbild, Hatlegger. Asian art, whose admiration at that time different parties around the turn of the century, in which trembling love began, on a very large tear-threshold sheet Her sorrow and concern for the struggle of the subten German soldiers in the First World War, conceived in Japanese manter without any Bor drawing: Karl Hermann Frank, an almond flower-throwing all Mächenhast dor- Staaisfehretär." in secret help during the sighting of our homeland by the Czechs put go-c-Sg. And the success of this method? What we oo-psos Because of this we know that we wish for it, we had learned today at the Bor- with Hofmann, and I think 50 years ago, that some of his students, the evening jeines 85, will be. On the occasion of his birthday: after the Berlasfen of the Bürgerschule still at the pupils of Hofmann The Goddess laffe him the victory of our leader! whose schools attended, had gone like me, one had a great Jnterejje for drawing memories of Dr. Anton Herget 50t0-08060-05060-09060-5010-05080-08085-090108000-0500-05060-0500-080-60-D508008060-0803 won, but you actually needed to learn a lot about it. I was later as a teacher Walter Klemm's Jhones book "Youth years of another family of another Bür- in Karlovy Vary called in me before turts again farewell from the parental home school without examination for fencing without living awakes the memory of the time, in further thought, the sign Unterrict in which I as a citizen student in Karisbad Hofmann From Joset Hofmarn as I would see my ancestors take over new spirits ai the Jeichnen had as a teachers. I love you, you old hut: you are a piece of past, the lived in it in happiness and pain. after nature around the turn of the century- Jch was from a single-minded village school ge= juhsig on the citizensculen inführt tell me viol von Art und Sitte But your days are measured. come.. Since it was then in Karlovy Vary nod ten I separate from you grievingly. And the erlangie Lechnit also left miz and what happened from ancient times. Gymnasium, leine Handelsalademie and no Hab' thank you! You remain unforgettable to me! without effort the exam fir drawing at keramisce specialized school was given, was jür die Dorf- And when I stand dreaming before you, take off a test commissary who as Ber= there becomes to me steta so warm us heart, My old, trusty home, live well! young of the whole environment the Karlovy Vary knight of the new was feared (the nashmali citizen school was the only "higher" to the district school inspector Prof Rodt in Karls-Schule bad). Hosmann came then just as a new teacher as well as so etwns in the youth rent Er. to the civic school. My fellow students learned to work after! But the chieftain for it, however, as Karisbader all jchon and zeltgegen, was probably that Hofmann with all the fairies that allowed me each father's house in the most elegant spa quarter. he allowed us in drawing, always the one on He won call unfere Juneigung. That saw that we learned to master the elements with pen and Pinjel Ficher. A Darauj-los. In the first row, we had any cheerful, fonder being who worked him from our other shmieren, as the new method then in teachers - by the way, almost excluded - made many schools to the Fodge hard when the Leh. In Gosmann's hours there were no hours with him. One muzte jchon all the castes - it was always cheerful with all the learners, spanning, if one win jeine contentment as if he wanted to judge Jean Panl's Grundsas. If in my later life shnur taken hard: Cheerfulness of the gimmick me the Beruj into other places of the basement, under which everything thrives, poison out of it led me to the upbringing of the men. This has already been done by trying to serve fine depravity with art, lo is the wiz on the native dialect much bet If in- the intruder in the Karlovy Vary school time a statement to lead us young Egerländer. Difficulties he immediately prepared, I have later also from afar court where in it the writing-language sore point of man's work in the home-sorch- Lag and helped with an irrevocable word of who, for whom he is gifted as if he had been rocked jemond. of the Egerländtschen over all cliffs. He was already at the time, which I did not follow at all in the pre-manufacturing of my lines, as the teacher thought, a connoisseur on the= and pupils brought each other closer, the boys in the fields. Pupil migrations were not yet usual with a teacher of their tribe, but Hofmann has led us much more intimately than with an ande-boch. I have another great one, they believe themselves of him in their inner photographic recording, mo we all, most male beings understood n, eared the reason rish grouped, to lie down at the Schömihstein and to know, about which is, of course, that in which I remember still how he pulfs us with that Wan dialect the most genuine feeling and thinking of the there growing, in Central Europe of the Bolkssiamm. We all had herbaria. Trohdem Wit had Hofmann as a teacher for arithmetic, the youth at this age not yet all geometrical drawing and Frethand drawing. Only when I later knew how to appreciate the same profession beauties of the Landzhaft, did the strange magic diefes leave behind like he did. tam me to the awareness that tigy rock formation in Walde with its worlds he moves already as a young specialist teacher little in the Blid to the Duppau mountains and from the Erzgebracherien instructional geleisen, son= mountains with the Egertal a so ijen Ein- dernehmen an elgene s Rel bruk corresponding to his Mejen with me, which I had since adjusted it out of my method. For this, some of the wide hikes through the homeland often play: the addition to the curriculum for civics, whereby I of course also gave more unreceived anlettung to the bookkeeping t Schülerfahre under Hofmann. certainly well meant, but with Kinbern diefes old age, which is not put at all on bad things- Josef Hofmann and also has no Eimplid in this life relationshipje, not at all easy to be worshipped, dear teacher to act Hofmann she knew to make us shadhast to 85th birthdays. He has the power of his dithteri- gift as the basis for the difte Unter- Hurrah, hurrah! Finally, "Josefi is there — judge a completely rooted in the life of the Feimat Now spring is not far either. Business story invented that we put the He already on his green dress. Haupt-, Kajjabüche: etc with all the drum and soon he decorated it with flowers colorfully handle. That it was a joy. And tell all hearts: And only the tnissy vicariousness made no matter how hard and see who the time is, to us spas! But his most original area of teaching, Who lives, hope again! for which he has been given a teaching gift like few - The sun and the spring wind - Walter Heilt also remembers many woes. Birthday Child, Klemm in jinein already mentioned book in With your eighty-five years, gratitude - was doih the drawing. Even you should experience this happiness. that for Jacks diefes age mostly not sym- With new strength and lust for existence pathisthe geometrical drawing knew jeine should revive your faithful, German breast, Nünstlernaiur and in the service of the photograph: Hanlegger. Josef Hofmann's parents' house "Weißes Reh" Gez. v. Antón Drümm. To place your golden warm human heart art education at a time when from diésem Schlagwori the modern paeda- Aufs strengthen themselves all over again. gogik was not yet the nede. If for example relltechnik sezte. Ais „Rquarellisten vonjes in ben. Paintings of outstanding master My wish for glüek is -- warm and ground and crack of the pyramid drawing rank". as Walter Klemm calls him, was true to him in the Kunfthandlungen on the Mlten Wiese -: to be treated io kum as an application was one that in no time possible. And he knew where especially the Düsseldorf painters= God see you still some year of pyramid tower with on the sheet and I at any rate, that a whole number of us school was strongly represented Karlovy Vary was in full style luck. After battle and adversity, remember still alive, how he with after jacks in all free hours in watercolors this gin vision already at that time very stimulating. Ais tried, with the secret wish, that I also later in Kerschensteiner's "Debandment of the A beautiful, warm evening red. a beautiful unusual tower when going through the benches to bring a tree into Aqua- once jo something to be accomplished, as we read of the sinister gift that he entered the Amalia Grumbach.