Early Life, Family and Training Born in Munich, Germany, on October 24, 1819, Josef Resch entered a world shaped by the musical traditions of his city. He was the son of a Stadtmusikus, a local city musician, which suggests a household where the arts were a constant presence. This early environment likely provided a foundation for his later pursuits in visual expression. The trajectory of his life took a formal turn in the mid-1830s.…