Emil Orlík

Emil Orlík

Emil Orlik (21 July 1870 – 28 September 1932) was a painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany.

Biography

Emil Orlik was the son of a Jewish tailor. He first studied art at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where one of his fellow pupils was Paul Klee. From 1891, he studied at the Munich Academy under Wilhelm Lindenschmit. Later he learned engraving from Johann Leonhard Raab and proceeded to experiment with various printmaking processes.[1]

After completing his military service in Prague, he returned to Munich, where he worked for the magazine Jugend. He spent most of 1898, travelling through Europe, visiting the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, and Paris. During this time he became aware of Japanese art, and the impact it was having in Europe, and decided to visit Japan to learn woodcut techniques. He left for Asia in March 1900, stopping off in Hong Kong, before reaching Japan, where he stayed until February 1901.[1]

In 1905 Emil Orlik moved to Berlin and took a post at the "School for Graphic and Book Art" of the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum), now part of the Berlin State Museums. He taught at the Berlin College of Arts and Crafts, where one of his students was George Grosz.

Orlik's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Princeton University Art Museum,[2] the British Museum,[3] the Museum of Modern Art,[4] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[5] the Worcester Art Museum,[6] the Harvard Art Museums,[7] the Clark Art Institute,[8] the Chazen Museum of Art,[9] the Brooklyn Museum,[10] the National Museum of Western Art,[11] the Cleveland Museum of Art,[12] the Artizon Museum,[13] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,[14] the Portland Art Museum,[15] the Fairfield University Museum,[16] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b Otterbeck, Cristoph (2007). Europa verlassen: Künstlerreisen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (in German). Weimar: Böhlau Verlag Köln. p. 80. ISBN 978-3-412-00206-0. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Study for a portrait of Ferdinand Hodler (x1990-225)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  3. ^ "drawing | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  4. ^ "MoMA | The Collection | Emil Orlik (German, 1870–1932)". MoMA.org. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  5. ^ "Exchange: Street Peddler". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  6. ^ "The Artist". worcester.emuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  7. ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Portrait of the painter Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855-1928)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  8. ^ "Portrait Study of a Woman". www.clarkart.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  9. ^ "Japanese Scene | 24119". Chazen Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  10. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  11. ^ "Emil Orlik | : (2) Street in Tokyo | Collection | The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo". collection.nmwa.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  12. ^ ""Richard Strauss" by Emil Orlik". 31 October 2018.
  13. ^ "The Collection". Artizon Museum. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  14. ^ "Emil Orlik". FAMSF Search the Collections. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  15. ^ "Gustav Mahler". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  16. ^ "Fairfield University Art Museum - The Seamstress, from the periodical "The Studio"". embark.fairfield.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  17. ^ "Emil Orlik | Female Figure (Frauengestalt)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
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