Booklet
- ID-nummer
- 2007.002.001
- Titel
- Booklet
- Objektkategori
- Dokument & anteckningar
- Publik beskrivning
- Some objects have a remarkable history. This small book contains the thoughts and poems of Rabindranath Tagore and members of his family. Among them are a hand-written poem by Tagore, who gave the book to Andrée Karpelès Hogman in 1923. Andrée Karpelès was an artist from France who spent a few years in Santiniketan, where Tagore ran a school. It was there that she both painted and translated Tagore's poems into French. After the end of the Second World War, Karpelès and her husband adopted a girl who had lost her father while fleeing from the Nazis, and her mother in a concentration camp. The book later became the property of their adopted daughter, Flora Hogman, who eventually settled in New York. When one of the Nobel Prize Museum's staff, Margrit Wettstein, came into contact with Flora Hogman in the course of her research, Hogman offered to donate the book to the Nobel Prize Museum. The book was given to the museum in 2007.
- Pristagare
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Provenance
- 366 Nobel Museum Temporary
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