Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken Possibly 1904 - 1909

Here's a postcard to Philip Zilcken, from Jan Zürcher, and what I find so cool about these kinds of intimate works is imagining the artist as a person, right? I mean, this one is a piece of correspondence. It's got that old-timey green stamp in the corner, and the address all written out in beautiful cursive... It's fascinating to think about the journey of this card, who handled it, what Philip Zilcken was doing when he received it... Was it a mundane day or a moment of surprise and connection? Did they know each other? What was the nature of their relationship? It kind of reminds me that all artists, even the dead ones, were once just people trying to connect, to communicate, to reach out across time and space. Art is just one way of doing that, and here, it is mixed up with daily life.