on Tuesday, dead Kurt Trampedach. The artist was 70 years old and leaves four children.
See also: Kurt Trampedach is deadNone of them had close contact to their father, who for many years has lived in a country house in the Pyrenees in France. It tells of Kurt trampedach's daughter Charlotte.
- It is many years since I have seen him! I wrote to him some months ago, but it is probably 14-15 years ago that I last saw him, says the artist's daughter, who tried to keep in touch with his father via letters.
- My dad rang a time in between, and then I wrote letters to him. I put the drawings from my daughter and something like that, says Charlotte Trampedach, who lives on the island of Bornholm.
- When have you last spoken with him?
- Yes...it was probably last year, I think.
Sad news
on Tuesday, she was notified that her father had passed away. It was her sister, who conveyed the sad news.
- When I looked at the phone, it was my sister who called, I had a good feeling that there was something wrong. So I have - well just like all other people do - cried. But I have not said it to so many, for I did not want to talk so much about it. I just have it digested, says Charlotte Trampedach.
her Sister had no more contact with Kurt Trampedach than Charlotte.
- No. There are the long distances, so you get not just the past. And also kurt's nature. There, you don't just fall, says Charlotte Trampedach.
How was he as a father?
My parents were divorced, so I got most of him in the weekends and in the holidays as a child. But when my daughter was a year old, we lived in the Basque country in a year's time – just in the vicinity of him. There we had close contact, so it I hoped that we could get by with, when I travelled home again. But then I bought a farm – and then you say that we were on each of our manor house, " she says, and sounds very collected.
- It, I get upset about now, is that I no longer have the opportunity to go down and visit him. It is often the survivors ' loss. Time goes by and all of a sudden it's over, she says.