Thursday Treasures

My Grandmother’s Paintings

I am lucky enough to have inherited some paintings made by my grandmother, Lagada Dirk Weigel. She worked mainly in acrylics and favored landscapes. Oma was an artistic person in general. She had an eye for fashion and decorating, she was a gardener, and she could sew her own clothing and made costumes for her children and grandchildren. Oma also liked to sketch and paint.

Oma Babe took a painting class with artist Arnold Vail at some point probably in the 1980s. I know that at least one of the paintings I have was done during that class. She painted a scene from the Texas countryside with bluebonnets and cacti when she made a trip there to visit Harold and Berta Mae Widmann.

Another painting is a scene of a beach at sunset with sand dunes and gulls. This could be either the ocean or possibly the Great Lakes. This is the painting from the Vail class.

The third painting is a river with a small rapids running through a forest with birch trees. This one looks to me like a Wisconsin scene.

I love that these images decorate my home and remind me of Oma. Her artistic talent has flowed down to her children and grandchildren. My daughter likes to paint and draw too and I know where that gene comes from!