Early Life, Family and Training Born in the port city of Hamburg on 15 November 1856, Friedrich Kallmorgen grew up in a household shaped by structure and design, as his father worked as an architect. The seeds of his own creative path were sown quite early in his childhood. Between 1862 and 1863, he sat at the side of his uncle, Theodor Kuchel, a painter of portraits and landscapes, to receive his first formal lessons in drawing. This…