Early Life, Family and Training Alexander Demetrius Goltz was born on 25 January 1857 in Püspökladány. He was the son of a railway engineer, a background that suggests a structured upbringing before his move to the urban center of Vienna. After the age of two, his life became centered in Vienna, the city that would define his professional identity as an artist of Austria-Hungary and later Austria. His formal training followed a rigoro…