415F

Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
26 December 1922

Dear Friend,

I have received the drawing1 that is supposed to show your head. It is hideous.

I know what an excellent person you are. It shocks me all the more that such an insignificant shadow on your character as your tolerance or sympathy for modern “art” should have to be punished so cruelly. I hear from Lampl2 that the artist has said that that is how he sees you! People like him should have the smallest possible access to analytic circles, for they are illustrations, only too undesirable, of Adler's thesis that it is precisely people with severe innate defects of vision who become painters and draughtsmen.