A Life Painted in Naiveté: The World of Lambert Sachs Lambert Sachs, born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1818, occupies a unique and endearing space within the landscape of 19th-century art. He wasn’t a product of formal academies or grand artistic movements; instead, his journey was one of self-discovery, leading him from the Rhineland to the burgeoning United States where he became known for his charmingly unsophisticated portraits, landscapes, and historical scenes. The son of Anna Margarete Dieland and Carl Bartolomaus Sachs, a professor at Heidelberg University, young Lambert received initial…