The Life and Art of Albert Venus Born in Dresden, Germany, Albert Venus was a painter, draftsperson, genre painter, landscape painter, and etcher. After losing his parents at the age of twelve, he was raised in a Catholic orphanage and attended the Catholic Freischule in his hometown. He later studied at the Dresden Royal Academy of Fine Arts. From 1860 to 1866, he was a student in the studio of the painter Ludwig Richter, becoming one…