Emil Orlík

Emil Orlík

Emil Orlík (21 July 1870 – 28 September 1932) was a Czech painter, etcher and lithographer. He and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany.

Biography

Emil Orlík was born on 21 July 1870 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He 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.<ref name=otterbeck/>

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.<ref name=otterbeck>Template:Cite book </ref>

In 1905 Emil Orlík 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.

Orlík's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Princeton University Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the British Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Museum of Modern Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the University of Michigan Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Worcester Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Harvard Art Museums,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Clark Art Institute,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Chazen Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Brooklyn Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the National Museum of Western Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Cleveland Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Artizon Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Portland Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Fairfield University Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Gallery

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  Self portrait
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  Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (1928)
  (etching with drypoint, printed with tone)
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  Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist (1917)
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  Max Reinhardt, theater and film director, and actor
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  Tilla Durieux, Austrian actress (1922)
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  Hans Wassmann as Nick Bottom (1909)
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  Cover for the score of the Turandot Suite
  by Ferruccio Busoni (1906)
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  Poster for the play Die Weber
  by Gerhart Hauptmann (1897)
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  Jakob Wassermann, novelist (1899)
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  Bookplate for the books of Franz Anderle
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  Kout v mém ateliéru (Corner of My Studio), in the Czech National Gallery in Prague
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  Gustav Mahler, composer, (1902)
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  Richard Strauss, composer (1917)
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  Kolo Moser, color woodcut, 18.2 × 18.5 cm, 1903
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  Drei Mädchen beim Brettspiel, Template:Circa, Farbholzschnitt

See also

• Vienna Secession
• Shin-hanga

External links

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• Emil Orlik prints, books, artwork and biography
• Emil Orlík (1870–1932) – Portraits of Friends and Contemporaries [description of exhibition in 2004]. Jewish Museum in Prague (Czech Republic)
• Guide to the Emil Orlik Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.
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