Complex sentence: The son of a Torah sopher (scribe), he was born in 1894 in the Galicia province of Austria-Hungary, Sam Salz at age 17, he traveled to Vienna to study painting and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of a Torah sopher (scribe), Salz was born in 1894 in the Galicia province of Austria-Hungary. He at age 17, he traveled to Vienna to study painting and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts.