Early Life, Family and Training Georg Ehrlich was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on 22 February 1897. His early years in the city provided the foundation for a life defined by the visual arts, though his path was interrupted by the realities of a continent at war. From 1912 until 1915, he pursued formal training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the school of arts and crafts in Vienna. During this formative period, he studied under the architect Oskar Strnad, an education that would inform his understanding of form and structure. The trajectory of his training was abruptly d…