Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Bernhard Dörries enters the scene in Hanover, Germany, born on May 26, 1898. He grows up within a family of intellectual rigor; his father, Bernhard Dörries, is a Protestant theologian, and his older brother, Hermann Dörries, pursues a career as a church historian. The environment is one of structured thought and academic tradition. The trajectory of his life shifts in 1917. He begins his studi…