Early Life, Family and Training Georg Seligmann enters the world in Copenhagen on 22 April 1866. He is born into a family headed by Rudolf Seligmann, a grocer, and Sophie Seligmann, née Weil. His early years are shaped by this domestic stability before his interests shift toward the intellectual and the visual. In 1883, he turns toward philosophy, studying the subject for a time. This academic pursuit, however, does not define his pat…