A SEA Gallery was closed for 2 weeks due to my trip to Germany to be present at the Easter week subsitute Opening as we were unable to attend the original Opening of February 15th, 2019 due to a family emergancy.    Here are some of the paintings installed for one year at the Culturelles Historisches   Museum in Peenemuende where the V 2 Rocket was developed prior and during WW II.  Part I  of the show was the installation of  my Bronze of Werner Von Braun, commisioned by my father Dr. Ernst A. Steinhoff, in 3 editions (the first in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington  DC, the 2nd at the Von Braun House at White Sands Proving Grounds, NM).  As I understand fully that this period of German history is not popular, as Dr. Philipp Aumann, Musuem Director and Curator of the show, expressed to me, we agreed to exhibit my anti-war paintings along with the bronze.    As a student and graduate student at UCLA  and U C Berkeley in the PhD program in German Literature, I studied the Holocaust, WWI & II through it's Literature and also looked deeply at my own family history and experience of WW II (our family was bombed 13 times and I almost died from contacting Diptheria, Scarlet Fever and Whooping Cough) and our subsequent move to the USA through "Operation Paperclip"   without the adults, especially the scientists ever processing their role in being co-opted to support Hitler's war.  As an adult I became convinced there should have been some sort of  (not just "debriefing"   but moral examination and review of the Nazi conditioning that the families never totally lost and left deep scars in  psyches of parents and their off-spring of which i am one.  Once back in New Mexico to dedicate myself full time to being a painter a way of also processing and being witness to my life's  and present experiences, --- confronted by the existence in Los Alamos  of the Bomb,  [ the continuance of Von Braun's  and my fathers legacy (though they had turned long before to peacetime service to  society]  it's symbol, the Missile.