Early Life, Family and Training Carl Fahringer was born on 25 December 1874 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. He grew up in a household where science and art shared a common space, as his brother, Josef Fahringer, pursued a career as a zoologist. This familial connection to the natural world would later find its way into the quiet observations of Carl's own work. His formal training began in Vienna. From 1892 to 1897, he studied at the Ac…