Two Summer Weeks in Hessen

Hello again.  Did I tell you all that I went to Germany last July for two weeks.  Me, I lived in Europe for so many years and never spent a night in Germany befor.  Thomas Zieringer, the creator of the "Jerusalem Peace Memorial" in Bensheim, Germany, bought a large painting of mine which I brought on a roll on the plane with me.  I was his guest.  While there I got to know his friends and relative, his beautiful town, Bensheim, and Frankfurt.  Bensheim was the seat of the UN war relief for children after the war.  A friend of Thomas's took out an old album and showed me Henry Kissinger as a young man in this friend's house when the man was a child.  I painted at Thomas'sorial and donated one of the paintings to the Bensheim city hall.  We traveled to many places
In Hessen.  I saw the Chagall windows in St. Stephen's Church. I prayed at the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe, in Worms. I kept kosher and walked through forests.  I learned about German history from my educated friend, Thomas Zieringer.  When I got home to Jerusalem I went to the AACI library and read dozens of book on Germany and WWll and on German art.  Did you know that the American painters of the Early 20th, late 19th century went to Dusseldorf to learn painting.  It is our art history entwined with theirs.  Coming soon:  the Dusseldorf School,