Erwin Lang (born 22 July 1886 – 10 February 1962) was an
Austria
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n
painter
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
. His work was part of the
painting event in the
art competition at the
1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...
. On December 14th, 2007, Erwin Lang's oil on canvas painting ''The Dancer
Grete Weisenthal With Her Son and Sister'' was sold at auction in New York via
Christie's
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for $51,400.
Life
Erwin Lang was born in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
, the son of the social worker and women's rights activist
Marie Lang, and studied at the
Vienna School of Arts and Crafts
The University of Applied Arts Vienna (, or informally just ''Die Angewandte'') is an arts university and institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university status since 1970.
History
The predecessor of the ...
under
Alfred Roller
Alfred Roller (2 October 1864 – 21 June 1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer. His wife was Mileva Roller and they were members of the Viennese Secession movement.
Life and work
Roller was born in Brno, Brünn ...
. He exhibited his works for the first time in 1908 at the Vienna Art Show. In 1911 Lang exhibited with
Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expre ...
and
Schiele in an exhibition of the
Hagenbund
The Hagenbund or Künstlerbund Hagen was a group of Austrian artists that formed in 1899. The group's name derived from the name Herr Hagen, the proprietor of an inn in Vienna which they frequented.
Early history
The group's most prominent member ...
, of which he was a member. Another of his main areas was
woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...
s.
References
Further reading
* ''Das frühe Plakat'' (Deutschland). 1980, p. 172
* Fuchs: ''Maler 1881–1900''. Band 1. p. 151
* ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Bio-Bibliographischer Index''. Band 6. 2000, p. 50
* ''Lang, Erwin''. In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker''. Band 22: ''Krügner–Leitch''. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 314
* ''Erwin Lang''. In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts''. Band 3: K–P. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1956, pp. 165 f.
* Wilhelmi: ''Künstlergruppen''. 1996, p. 171
External links
Benezit Dictionary of Artists: Lang, Erwin(subscription required)
1886 births
1962 deaths
Austrian male painters
Art competitors at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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