A Life in Landscape and Line Born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1822, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Theodor Albert spent his life translating the physical world into the delicate language of color and stone. His training began in earnest at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he studied under Schadow between 1841 and 1846. This period of formal instruction provided the foundation for a career defined by a keen observation of the natural wo…