Early Life, Family and Training Born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin on July 22, 1858, Alexander Kips entered a world where art was a family language. His full name, Friedrich Andreas Alexander Kiss, carried the weight of a lineage dedicated to the brush and the pigment. He was the son of Johan Friedrich Kips, a painter of shutters and signs, and Wilhelmine Friederike Rosalie Kips. This domestic environment, shared with his s…