That's Me

L i z and Family




Wee only have what we do not hold

Wir habe nur was wir nicht halten
Abbiamo solo ciò che non manteniamo



After a long time of mourning being widowed, but still in a sentimental mood, I started designing this website with my heart full of joy again, and the steady encouragment of my children.

Born and grown up in Salzburg/Austria, my upbringing was sheltered and life always sourrounded by music (see my grandparents below). After the attendance of the gymnasium and graduating as a nursery-school teacher, I had to leave for the U.S.A. and there as an US-airline stewardess, my life became adventurous, meeting interesting people but others as well.
If you want to know more about it, what perhaps makes me differ from others philosophy of life, read more here.

I've seen and been to many places, but gained also dramatic experience because my mothers strange decision suddenly sending me off to the US to her girlfriend when I was much to young. Being not of age then I had to obey my parents, this also meant leaving my first love, what already had left its marks on me. But at that time nobody could realize what consequences this separation would bring into my life later on. Looking back today, only now I know that so many life's decision that followed, were made with reference to this heartbraking event - and still are.

So my life's motto became that we only have what we do not hold, but meanwhile my wounds have turned into wisdom, and my children and a handful but honest friends as well, always are of great help.
I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.


IDOLS
Leonardo da Vinci, an all-rounder but also an animal lover (15.04.1452-02.05.1519), read his words: "A time will come when a crime against an animal will be pursued in the same way as a crime against a human being."
Elisabetta Canori Mora, (21.11.1774 - 05.02.1825), you'll find her tomb in the left chapel (by Bernini) of the church San Carlino in Rome. Her self-sacrifice and gentleness in loving her husband, forgiving his humiliation again and again and in spite of everything being faithful until death, was admirable. Tragedy: She had to die first, only then it became conceivable to him what he lost !


L i z
August 2000

...and nuw my family:

Father  Mother  Children 
Gerhard Otto Neugebauer
born 05.01.1912 Prague
ceased 22.01.2006 Oberalm/Sbg.  
Wilfriede Maria, geb. d'Albert
born 07.09.1915 Montreux/Switzerland
deceased 16.05.1963 Vienna  
Elisabeth Dora, born 18.10.1937 Salzburg
Monika,, born 06.08.1940 Salzburg
deceased 28.01.1942 Salzburg
Wolfgang, born 25.09.1942 Salzburg 


Father Gerhard - Mother Wilfriede


About the father and his father -
Gerhard, born in Prag - born into a business-family (bookstore-owners since generations), then also k & k court suppliers.
Since his father Otto - due to foot paralysis he never was involved in war - he knew when it was the right time leaving Prag for moving to Salzburg. Otto then bought two shops in Salzburg: "Spielwaren Neumüller" Rathausplatz (for his brother Viktor - so he and his family would have "a good stay" when coming home
from WWI) and for himself and his family "Mayrische Buchhandlung" Theatergasse. The picture shows Otto's business in Prag. Thank you dear "Großpapa" for all your efforts, you wll lways stay an example for me! Nevertheless WWII then brought so many changes - also for us children!!



About the mother and her mother -
Wilfriede, born in Montreux/Switzerland - coming from an - at that time famous- - aartist family.
Her fathe being the pianist and omposer Eugen Albert,
her mother Friederike "Fritzi", after being his pupil, later becoming also a pianist and his wife.
Wilfriedee and Gerhats marriage was meant as love for a lifetime, but
WWII changed evHerything - also for us children!!



 




Grandparents & more...

Eugen (Eugene) d'Albert

About my maternal grandfather & others:

Born April 10, 1864 Glasgow (father Charles d'Albert, married to Annie Rowell.
d''Albert's marriages: Salingré, Carreno, Finck, Fulda, Jauner (my grandmother),
Fels.
Private pictures etc. only on request!






tVilla Teresa

 


Boehm Pál - Great-Grand uncle

Great--great-Uncle - Ur-Großonkel - Grande-prozio

Boehm Pál (also written: Boehm Paul), 1839/12/28 - 1905/03/229, a talent for drawing just like his father who was an engineer at the Nagyvárad bishop estate, Pál was born in Nagyvárad. He learned to paint from Antal Haan and then painted in Debrecen, Pest, Szolnok/Hungary and Vienna/Austria, later opened a school for painters in Arad/Hungary and became the master of Lászlo Paál. He came to Munich/Germany on a fellowship in 1871. His paintings were altar pieces, portraits, still-lifes and romantic landscapes with figures, mostly of the Hungarian lowland plain, as well as fishermen or gypsys in Transylvania and the Banat.
He painted pictures of what he saw with delicate artistry. Enthusiastic about his paintings became the English, Germans and especially the Americans. He was married to my grandmother's sister and died in Munich.



Delicate Artistry


updated 2020-01-056