Celebrating her Mother - Portraits of the 1950s

"My Mother - Portrait of a Woman in the 1950s"- Series of paintings by Susanne Nielsen celebrating her mother in images from the era of hope, the "Economic Miracle" of the 1950s!

Susanne with her works in progress...

The joyful young Anneliese Schmidt in her first years of marriage in the Germany and Austria of the 1950s, the Economic Miracle ("Wirtschafts-Wunder"). She sewed all her beautiful gowns and loved going out after years of war and displacement. 

Except for one image all show her in evening wardrobe, the exception was a apron/dress she modeled for a catalog. (I never saw my mother in one in her entire life!)

 She was always elegantly dressed and going out at my father's side in his work for the Foreign Service and in their private travels of the world, not a continent  they had not visited! 

                                                  paintings begun, sketched out figures!

some color and juxtaposed by black and white portraits of the artist Susanne Nielsen by photographer Glenn Nielsen (on left)