The Formative Years in Vienna and Munich Born in 1887 in Villach, Arnold Clementschitsch began a path that would lead him through the most rigorous academic circles of the era. His training commenced at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna in 1908, followed by his acceptance into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna the following year. It was during his time at the Viennese School for Applied Arts, studying under Bertold Löffler in 1910, that his aesthetic sensibilities began to shift. He encountered the principles of French post-impressionism, a contact that would fundamentally a…