Briefkaart aan Max Dittmar Henkel Possibly 1913

This is a postcard to Max Dittmar Henkel by Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig from 1913, written in ink. It's so casual and intimate, right? Like a painter's thoughts spilled right onto the card. Look at the way the ink pools and thins, how the letters dance across the surface. It’s the kind of handwriting that feels like a drawing, full of personality. There's a real physicality to it, you can almost feel Nibbrig’s hand moving across the paper. The ink is dark and bold, almost carving itself into the surface. See how the artist's signature at the bottom is both firm and fluid? It makes you think about painting, too, and how even writing can be a kind of mark-making. Think about other artists who treat language as a kind of material, like Cy Twombly. This piece reminds us that art is really just one big conversation, a back-and-forth across time.