Joseph Oppenheimer (1876-1967) was born in Würzburg, Germany. From an early age his whole life was art.
At 15, before being old enough to enroll in the Munich Academy of Art, he left school and began studying art with some of the foremost German painters such as Fehr.
Perhaps the impetus for this was his chance meeting with The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, at the age on 14 when they both stayed at the same spa hotel in Bad Kissingen.
Joseph made a pencil sketch of Bismarck and presented it to him.