Early Life and Artistic Training Born in Munich, Germany, on April 4, 1899, Franz Doll was a man whose life was deeply rooted in the creative pulse of his home city. Before the shadows of the First World War had even fallen, he began to find his way through the halls of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. It was here that the young artist first began to cultivate the hand of a painter, draftsman, and graphic artist, absorbing the founda…