Klitsch (Peter) Born in Austria in 1934: 7 SIGNED LITHOGRAPHS BY THE AUSTRIAN ARTIST, In an interview in 2010, the 80 year old Artist said among others: “One day just before Easter of 1945 I was called to the headmaster’s office. I hated school and so was worried that I had done something bad. It turned out that my mother was there. She had somehow “organized” a car and driver, and she wanted to take me away. I protested, “But Mutti, I have to defend Vienna!” She hit me across the face. There was an SS guy there who tried to intervene, and she raised her hand as if to give him one, too. Now the SS guy could have killed her on the spot, but he didn’t do anything. He just seemed to accept that she was fighting like a lioness for her only child, and so he let her and me go. I think it was the bravest thing she ever did. We drove to my grandparents’ house in Hietzing on Gogolgasse, where we lived the rest of 1945. It was great… no school!”