The Munich Academy and the Formative Years January 1854 brings Robert Hermann Raudner into the world at Nimkau in Silesia. He is the son of a telegraphist. The path toward the canvas begins in earnest in October 1878, when he enters the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He joins the antique class, focusing his early efforts on drawing after the antique. The halls of the Academy place him alongside a specific cohort of emerging talents. His classmates include Gyula Benczúr, Alexander Strähuber, Johann Leonhard Raab, and Ludwig von Löfftz. These shared studies in Munich form the technical f…