The Forest and the Canvas Gerhard Löbenberg grew up in a forest house in Gemkenthal, a part of Altenau in the Harz. His father was a forester, and the woods were a constant presence from his earliest years. This proximity to the wild shaped his eye before he ever picked up a brush. By the age of eighteen, his drawings were already finding their way into the pages of Wild und Hund. He eventually moved toward formal training, studying at…