My grandparents, Ernst and Alice Lichtblau, commissioned Malva Schalek to do pastel portraits of my father, George, and his brother, Hans, as young boys. The Schaleks were related to the Lichtblaus through the Knopfer family, Ernst's brother-in-law. The portraits were in Alice's apartment until her death, then given to their subjects. They are respectively in my mother's and uncle's houses in DC and NYC.