Early Life and Military Service Bernhard Heisig entered the world in 1925 in Breslau, Silesia. It was a place of deep roots and complex histories, a setting that would later haunt his brush. Seeking to master the visual language of his era, he began his studies at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Breslau. He was a young man possessed by the promise of craft, yet the winds of history were already shifting, threatening to pull him from…