sentences:  Grimm was born in 1733 in Burgdorf, a town situated to the north-east of Bern in Switzerland.Initially Grimm aspired to be a poet and in 1762 published a volume of poems.Shortly before 1760 Grimm moved to Bern and studied under Johann Ludwig Aberli who had taken over a drawing school that had previously been run by his uncle Johann Rudolf Grimm.