Early Life and Education Irving Kriesberg was born on March 13, 1919, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were Bessie and Max Kriesberg, and he had three brothers: Lee, Martin, and Louis. From a young age, Kriesberg displayed an artistic inclination, filling notebooks with drawings of animals observed at the Field Museum of Natural History. He graduated from Von Steuben High School in 1937 and subsequently attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning his BFA in 1941. Notable instructors during this period included Boris Anisfeld, a Russian-American avant-garde painter who influe…