"Peter??s mother, Gertrud M??ller-Munk, who followed her son to America, was an artist in her own right and a formidable German-backboned personality, as my own mother, Ilona M??ller-Munk, would come to appreciate only too well over the years. (My mother??s father, Max Lowenthal, was himself originally a Berlin businessman perhaps not much unlike Peter??s father.)" . . . .