Lambert Guenther  was born 1883 Sept. 13th in Wesel. the son of Bernhard Günther (a butcher) and Sibille Salomon.  He attended Wesel grammar school 1893-1900, and went in 1900 to work as a clerk in Düsseldorf .  The first reference to him working as a painter,  [Kunstmaler] dated to  1903.  In 1908 he emigrated via Rotterdam to the United States, where he married with a German immigrant. His brother Siegmund who lived in Düsseldorf friom 1919 was also a painter.