Monastery in Austria /// Stift in St. Lambrecht

Winter in St. Lambrecht, Styria, Austria. I drew this in 2000 to use as a Christmas card. A couple from Austria bought the original drawing.

As a nine-year old I was in this church many Sunday mornings with my Aunt Grete. The floor in the narthex is covered with carved stone monuments of influential dignitaries and priests of Austria. My Aunt and Uncle's house was a few hundred feet away from the monastery. (My uncle was a men's tailor and his specialty was Austrian costumes.)

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