Early Life, Family and Training Born in Berlin on 10 October 1838, Franz Meyerheim entered a world where the brush and the canvas were the primary languages of his kin. He was born into a lineage of creators, finding his first lessons not in a formal classroom, but within the intimate confines of his own home. His father, the painter Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim, provided the initial guidance that would shape the young boy's hand and eye…