Early Life, Family and Training Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Albert Arnz entered a world shaped by the precision of the printed word. He was the son of Maria Catharina Carolina and Heinrich Arnz, a man who had established himself as a well-known bookseller and printer. This familial connection to the dissemination of knowledge provided a stable, industrious backdrop to his early years in the Rhineland. The pull toward the visual arts…