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Not everybody could become an artist in the Besig family. Fritz for example became an engineer.

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The mother of my Granddad, Herbert. Lived in Wünschelburg, now Radków, before being expelled 1946. Her...

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Born 1883, a time when his first name was still a perfectly normal one, Adolf became a shoemaker in...

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It's 1956. Lisa is an old woman age 81 now. Her husband died six years ago. She lives with her younger...

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This is my grandfather. It's 1938, he's a the only teacher in a small countryside school in Lower...

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Walter looks haggard on this gloomy picture. I guess there were more fortunate trades in post-war Germany than being a landscapist.

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Both Walter and Lisa weren't the youngest when they married 1912. He was 43 and she was 37. Which didn't...

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An undated picture from the later part of their lives. Both managed to see their 80th Birthday, so it's...

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The back of this picture has the name Lisa written on it. So maybe this is Elisabeth Flatter who married...

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Uploaded on Feb 29, 2012  |  Map

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This photo has no date. Walter look round-about-ish 40 here, so it might have been taken...

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tried to touch up this rather damaged photo with Gimp. Not that I'm particularly good at it. I'm not...

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Family portrait of my great-grand parents Walter and Elisabeth "Lisa" Besig with their two...

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Walter Besig at an exhibition of his paintings in Dresden. He came back form New York State to Germany...

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Uploaded on Feb 24, 2012  |  Map

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Chillin' at the fireplace. This picture has been taken at a place called "Sunter". It might be...

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Being 36, he made a journey to Italy, you know, as painters do. There he met his future first wife, the...

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012  |  Map

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This picture must have been taken before 1904 the year when Conradine Besig (om the right) died. I have...

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Uploaded on Feb 19, 2012  |  Map

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This is my great-grandfather at the age of 30. There is some pait on his coat, because he was a painter.

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Uploaded on Feb 19, 2012

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Sometimes the craftspeople from the Wunderland team up to build dioramas for special exhibitions. This is a piece of Berlin in 1945.

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Uploaded on Feb 5, 2012  |  Map

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