Early Life, Family and Training Anton Nowak was born on 10 May 1865 in Maribor, then known as Marburg an der Drau. He entered a German-oriented household consisting of six children. His father worked as a bookbinder and operated a stationery shop, a background that provided an early, practical immersion into the mechanics of print and visual media. This domestic environment likely anchored his later technical precision in graphic arts…