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Edmond Goergen (1914-2000) completed two different qualifications. He studied in Paris in 1945 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École du Louvre. After primary school, he attended the Institut Emile Metz in Luxembourg and simultaneously completed a technical course of study at the state School of Arts, Crafts and Trades in Luxembourg. From 1934 to 1943, he worked for Radio Luxembourg as a highfrequency technician at the transmitter in Junglinster. This made it possible for him to establish regular radio contact between Luxembourg and the Allies during the Second World War. Among other things, he passed on the first news of preparation for the German V-2 missiles in Peenemünde. On December 14, 1943, he was arrested by the German SS and was sent briefly to the Hinzert concentration camp. Then he was interned at the Sachenhausen camp until 1944, and at Mauthausen until the liberation of that camp on May 17, 1945. There, he made drawings of life in the camp which were published after the under the title “Geoles Sanglantes” Imprimerie H.Neyscher Luxembourg, and later under the name “Dessins de Mauthausen” Edition Cercle d’ Art Paris. After the war, he worked as a portrait and landscape painter and became the head of the state restoration service and, in 1968, Conservator with the “Service die Sites et Monuments Nationaux” (SSMN).