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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Steve63 on 23 May 2014, 04:23:03 PM

Title: Face from the past
Post by: Steve63 on 23 May 2014, 04:23:03 PM

I work in Social Housing.  Today I visited a customer about some remedial building work to her house, during the course of the visit the elderly lady pointed out a portrait of her late husband which was hanging on her bedroom wall, she said that the picture was painted in Germany just after the war by a German PoW while her husband was serving as a guard at the camp.  The picture was painted on an old NAAFI packing case and the cost was 2 cigarettes per sitting, all communication between her husband and the artist was done in a very basic sign language which is, oddly enough the same way I used to communicate with the locals when I worked in Germany.  The pictures appears to be signed KNIGGE.H.  
Not miniatures or wargame related, but it does have a personal touch and might be interesting to others too
Cheers

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k145/the-fighting-chef/WP_000124_zps010ac740.jpg) (http://s87.photobucket.com/user/the-fighting-chef/media/WP_000124_zps010ac740.jpg.html)

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k145/the-fighting-chef/WP_000125_zps47516c69.jpg) (http://s87.photobucket.com/user/the-fighting-chef/media/WP_000125_zps47516c69.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: von Lucky on 24 May 2014, 01:36:17 AM

Nice little story. Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: Aaron on 27 May 2014, 12:47:13 PM

My old neighbor had something similar done, only he had the POW paint a picture of his wife from a photo he carried with him throughout the war. The painting was done on a bit of duffel bag. I'm guessing it got binned when he passed on as they had no kids.

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: Gibby on 27 May 2014, 09:42:02 PM

That's great. What a priceless family heirloom!

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: aircav on 27 May 2014, 10:03:29 PM

That's brilliant  8) 8)

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: Gothic Line on 28 May 2014, 12:20:40 AM

 Great story always welcome!
 regards
 Gui

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: 6milPhil on 28 May 2014, 04:19:36 AM

I wonder if the painter was related to the historian Volk Hard Knigge...

Title: Re: Face from the past
Post by: Steve63 on 29 May 2014, 04:35:00 PM

I did a bit of googleing on the name KNIGGE.H but turned up nothing.  It would have been nice if the painter had turned out to be famous