Note 7

Posted by Genjo on November 28th, 2008 filed in Notes

A rare verbal snapshot of Wohl comes from a concierge at a small ivy-walled Paris hotel who remembered, ‘an oriental German who spoke French like an Englishman. Always courteous, very tidy and quiet, but never seeming as if he belonged.’

A gallery owner in Rotterdam remembered, ‘the inscrutable smile of Herr Wohl and the clear eyes that noticed everything’. A wealthy couple, who held dinner parties for ‘interesting’ characters they and their friends met on their travels, remarked on the curious well-mannered guest who sat through three such parties, eating sparingly and listening intently, but never saying a word, except ‘good evening’ and ‘goodbye’.