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Lori’s Notebook

A Legacy of Art and the Old Country

February 9, 2015

Following the death of my 100 year old grandfather, I find myself, a few months later, helping my mother and my aunt packing up my grandparents’ house. A hundred years of stored memories, papers, photographs, furniture, and most of my grandmother’s life work as an artist. It has been an amazing process of unearthing a century of my legacy.

Among the items packed away in the basement was this beautiful zither and this leather-bound set of Goethe’s works in German.

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Categories: Everyday Life, Inspiration Tagged: art, bronze sculpture, clay sculpture, Eva Reichl, family life

From Lori’s Notebook

  • Allan’s Wings

    Back in the winter of 2021 when my work was featured in What Women Create Magazine, I received a lovely email from Tricia in South Carolina who was touched by the article, enough so that she saved it in her files, knowing that one day she would reach out again.

  • From Lace to Snowflakes

    I was fortunate enough to have met both of my Austrian great-grandmothers.

  • Carmen’s Merienda

    It is always bittersweet when previous clients get back in touch to request a memorial quilt in honor of an additional family member who has passed away.

  • Kathy’s Waves
  • Mark’s van der Rohe

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