The Life and Training of Erwin Lang Born in Vienna on 22 July 1886, Erwin Lang entered a world shaped by the active spirit of his mother, Marie Lang, a dedicated social worker and women's rights activist. This domestic environment provided the backdrop for a life that would eventually find its expression through the brush and the woodcut. His early years in the Austrian capital allowed him to absorb the textures of a city in transition, a setting that would later inform his visual observations. To refine his innate sensibilities, Erwin Lang sought formal instruction at the Vienna School of…