Face from the past

[Steve63]

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

[von Lucky]

Nice little story. Thanks for sharing.

[Aaron]

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.

[Gibby]

That's great. What a priceless family heirloom!

[aircav]

That's brilliant 

[Gothic Line]

 Great story always welcome!
 regards
 Gui

[6milPhil]

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

[Steve63]

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