Adolph Jentsch was born in Dresden, Germany in 1888, to a well-educated family that encouraged his interest in the arts. Jentsch studied at the Staatsakademie für Bildende Kunste in Dresden, under Gussmann, Zwunscher and Kühl. At the Academy, he was acquainted with George Grosz and Max Pechstein, along with a number of other young artists who later would become founders of modernist art movements around Germany. During and after his education, Germany was a place where the arts were flourishing. "The last decade of the nineteenth century saw a sudden blossoming in almost every sphere of human activity, including the arts. Long accepted theories were confuted and traditions questioned," writes Levison (1973:20). While he was still studying, ...