The Nuremberg Hand Born in Nuremberg in 1897, Conrad Völkel was a man shaped by the disciplined traditions of German craftsmanship. His early years were defined by formal training, beginning with an apprenticeship at the Kunstgewerbeschule and continuing through the Offener Zeichensaal of his home city. He was a practitioner of many disciplines, moving between the delicate precision of engraving and the fluid expression of painting and…