Heinrich Lang (painter)

Heinrich Lang (24 April 1838 in Regensburg – 8 July 1891 in Munich) was a German horse and battle painter, illustrator and author.

He developed an interest in painting from visiting the studios of Carl Steffeck, during a stay in Berlin when he was seventeen.

Between 1855 and 1857, he studied with Friedrich Voltz and Franz Adam at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

He conducted anatomical studies of horses at the Veterinary School of Ludwig Maximilian University as well as at the local stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Regensburg and Württemberg, where he had learned to ride as a boy.

He married the landscape painter, Tina Blau, in 1883 and spent his later years as an illustrator and writer in Munich.