Karl Marx | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Alexander von Humboldt | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Karl G. Heider | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Karl Jenkins | Erich von Stroheim | Max von Sydow | Justus von Liebig | Karl Stefanovic | Hermann von Helmholtz |
Born in Szinyeújfalu, Hungary (today Chminianska Nová Ves, Slovakia), he learned painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Karl von Piloty.
He then spent one year at the Dresden Academy, and from there went to the Munich Academy (1869–1873) others who studied there at the same time included: Hermann Anschütz, Karl von Piloty, and Alexander Wagner.