The Artistic Journey of Peter Loew Born in Schliersee, Germany, Peter Loew was a painter and university teacher who demonstrated an early talent for drawing and watercolors. Beginning his study of oil painting through self-instruction at the age of fifteen, his initial works focused on religious themes, such as the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Deposition, the Crowning with Thorns, and the Pietà. These early pieces were created in an "old master style." Following his training in Schliersee, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1951 to 1957 under the masterclass of Hermann K…