The Anatomical Eye Lechaschau, a mountain village west of Garmisch and Innsbruck, provides the backdrop for the early years of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte. The son of Franz Anton Schmid, a peasant farmer who also labored as a builder and stone mason, his path leads from local schooling to the heavy labor of a builder's henchmen in Bavaria. This physical reality shifts in 1878 when he enters the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Under the guidanc…