A Life of Lines and Color Albert Mertz arrived on the Danish art scene with a precocious energy, exhibiting at the Artists Autumn Exhibition in 1936 when he was only sixteen. Born in Copenhagen in 1920, his early years were marked by a restless curiosity that led him to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He did not stay long; by 1938, he had walked away from the Academy in protest against its rigid teaching methods. This early defi…