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Otto Springorum, General Manager of the Gelsenkirchen Coal ... Image 1

Otto Springorum, General Manager of the Gelsenkirchen Coal Mining Company, Germany, delegate to the 1949 Moral-Rearmament Assembly, Caux, Switzerland)

Date
1949
Medium
Black and white pastel on paper on board
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 8 in.

Description & Inscriptions

[top left of drawing in graphite]: Violet / Oakley / Caux / 1949; [lower left of drawing in graphite]: I believe the programme / of Caux is the great hope / for the problems of the Ruhr -- / "We must send a great / number of people to Caux"; [lower right of drawing in graphite]: "Voluntary Leave[?] / work with my / Colleague / August Metzing [?]"; [bottom center of drawing in graphite]: Otto Springorum / General Manager, Gelsenkirchen Coal Mining Company; [bottom left of board in graphite]: Otto Springoram [sic]; [bottom right of board in graphite]: P-60; [verso in graphite]: Otto Springoram [sic]

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