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flee the country, most of them never to return. Steinmetzer led a group of art historians in founding a museum in honor of the group, collecting stories and pieces to showcase their lives. With the discovery that Salzer was still alive, the museum held a special exhibit in her honor in 2002, Salzer was 96 years old, and in 2003 the
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white enamel that was not commercially available, and so Salzer and
Grossman returned to the manuels to find recipeies that helped them make their own white glass which was ground into powder for use in painting. Enamel became her medium of choice and in 1946 two portraits she has painted using the technique wer accepted into the
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technique. The technique was several hundred years old but had experienced a revival in the 1930s. Unable to find a practicing artist in the style, she and her husband researched the techniques with the aid of some manuels they found, and eventually bought a kiln. The grisaille technique required a
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In 2002, Austrian art historian
Christina Steinmetzer was researching the Zinkenbach group when she discovered that Lisel Salzer was still alive and working in Seattle. Salzer was the last of the group to survive. Steinmetzer referred to the group as a 'lost generation' because they were forced to
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and her mother was born in Turkey. Both of her parents and Lisel were Jewish. Lisel was the only-child of a well-to-do family. Her artistic talents were noticed early and she attended the Vienna Art
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Salzer continued to paint portraiture and with enamel and her work was frequently shown at the Otto
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exhibition. She went on to participate in the exhibit nine more times, in 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1960. Her work was also regularly featured at the
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continue her studies before she opened her own studio in Vienna not far from her parents' house. Her works were accepted into top-rated exhibitions and were shown at the
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