Jean Mannheim was a German-American painter. Mannheim began to paint portraits as a self-taught artist. He also learned the bookbinding trade. At the age of 17, he left his parents’ home and embarked on a hike across Germany, earning his living as a painter and bookbinder. To escape military service, he fled to France. There he began studying painters at the Académie Colarossi , Académie Julian and William Adolphe...