Early Life, Family and Training Born in Amsterdam on 15 June 1902, Fred Sieger entered a world that would eventually witness his transformation from a clerk into a painter. He was the son of Frederik Sieger and Richtje voor de Wind, growing up alongside a brother named Sjoerd, who was two years his junior. The early years of his life were shaped by the steady rhythms of a family life in the Dutch capital, far removed from the studios a…