A Life in Leipzig and Düsseldorf Leipzig, 1828. The son of bookseller Karl August Reimer enters the world into a family shaped by the printed word and the art-loving legacy of his grandfather, Georg Andreas Reimer. His early years are rooted in this German intellectual landscape. The path toward the brush begins not in a formal academy, but through private instruction under Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf. This connection to the Düsseldorf…