Josef Hoffmann
Born Arthur Berger in Vienna in 1892 to Jewish parents (Simon Berger, a civil servant, and his wife Pauline, née Beran), Berger was educated at the "Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt" and between 1911 and 1915 the "Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien", where he was trained in architecture by the highly respected Jugendstil architects Josef Hoffmann and Oskar Strnad.