Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Louis Ammy Blanc entered the world in 1810 in Berlin, Germany, born into a family of Huguenot descent. This lineage provided a specific cultural backdrop to his early years in Prussia. By the end of the 1820s, he had already committed himself to a formal path, beginning his artistic education at the Berliner Akademie. His time in Berlin established the technical foundation required for the prof…