ERWIN LANG (Vienna 1886 - 1962 Vienna), The Rising

ERWIN LANG*
(Vienna 1886 - 1962 Vienna)
The Rising
lithography/paper, 46,9 x 33 cm
litography from a portfolio of 12 lithographs and poems by Richard Billinger Archangels Morgenruf
Provenance: private property Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 300
START € 200

Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Erich Mallina, Rudolf Larisch, Carl Otto Czeschka and Berthold Löffler, among others. 1908 Participated in the art show of Gustav Klimt. Exhibits with Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Around 1910 marries the dancer Grete Wiesenthal. Worked as a stage designer in Vienna and Berlin for Max Reinhardt, among others. Friendship with Oskar Kokoschka and Franz von Zülow. 1924 - 1938 member of the Hagenbund, from 1946 member of the Vienna Secession, also membership of the Salzkammergut Artists' Guild. Created graphic works, also cycles and numerous posters and illustrations for Grete Wiesenthal, an important representative of modern expressive dance.

As the son of the social worker and women's rights activist Marie Lang, Lang attended Alfred Roller's school of applied arts together with Kokoschka and Schiele. As early as 1908 he exhibited his works at the Vienna Art Show and in 1911 as part of the Hagenbund. His artistic focus was on the technique of the woodcut. After being a prisoner of war in Russia, from which he was only able to escape via China in 1920, he worked mainly as a stage decorator in Vienna and Berlin.
It's one of the most beautiful things I've seen (...). She is so immaterial and so modest, almost entirely dancing, floating art and yet so very human in the goodness of her intelligent feeling.” These rapturous words come from a contemporary's personal memory of meeting the dancer Grete Wiesenthal. If you believe the contemporary descriptions, there is hardly anyone who is not enchanted by the charm, the elegance, the dancing ability, but also the kindness and philanthropy of the famous dancer. The admiration of the artist can also be clearly felt in the works of Erwin Lang shown here. The two are married to each other from 1910 to 1920 and have a son together. Lang met the young dancer when he was attending the applied arts school and working on nude and movement studies. Grete Wiesenthal was initially a solo dancer in the Vienna Court Opera Ballet and left the opera in 1908 to found an independent dance group with her sisters. In the same year, the three Wiesenthal sisters celebrate a resounding success with their modern dance style at the Cabaret Fledermaus.

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