
Emil Orlík (21 July 1870 – 28 September 1932) was a Czech painter,
etcher and
lithographer. He and lived and worked in
Prague
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, Austria and Germany.
Biography
Emil Orlík was born on 21 July 1870 in
Prague
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,
Bohemia
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,
Austria-Hungary
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. He was the son of a
Jewish
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tailor. He first studied art at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where one of his fellow pupils was
Paul Klee
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. 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.
[
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.][
]
In 1905 Emil Orlík moved to Berlin
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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, the British Museum
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, the Museum of Modern Art
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, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Clark Art Institute
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, the Chazen Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum
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, the National Museum of Western Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art
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, the Artizon Museum
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, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Portland Art Museum, the Fairfield University Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
Gallery
File:Emil Orlik self portrait.jpeg, Self portrait
File:Wilhelm Furtwängler by Emil Orlik.jpeg, Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (1928)
(etching with drypoint, printed with tone)
File:Wanda Landowska by Emil Orlik.jpg, Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist (1917)
File:Emil Orlik Portrait Max Reinhardt.jpg, Max Reinhardt
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, theater and film director, and actor
File:Tilla Durieux.jpg, Tilla Durieux, Austrian actress (1922)
File:Emil Orlik Rollenportrait Hans Wassmann.jpg, Hans Wassmann as Nick Bottom (1909)
File:Turandot Suite Score Cover.jpg, Cover for the score of the '' Turandot Suite''
by Ferruccio Busoni
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(1906)
File:Die Weber 1897 by Emil Orlik.jpeg, Poster for the play ''Die Weber''
by Gerhart Hauptmann (1897)
File:Jakob Wassermann.jpg, Jakob Wassermann, novelist (1899)
File:Emil Orlik Bookplate.jpg, Bookplate
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for the books of Franz Anderle
File:Kout v mém ateliéru (Corner in My Studio) by Emil Orlik.jpg, ''Kout v mém ateliéru'' (''Corner of My Studio''), in the Czech National Gallery in Prague
File:Emil Orlik Gustav Mahler 1902.jpg, Gustav Mahler
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, composer, (1902)
File:EmilOrlikRichardStrauss1917.JPG, Richard Strauss
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, composer (1917)
File:Emil Orlik - Kolo Moser - 1903.jpeg, alt=Gravure sur bois de fil en couleur, 18,2 x 18,5 cm, 1903 , '' Kolo Moser,'' color woodcut, 18.2 × 18.5 cm, 1903
File:Emil_Orlik_-_Drei_Mädchen_beim_Brettspiel,_c._1907,_Farbholzschnitt.jpg, ''Drei Mädchen beim Brettspiel'', , Farbholzschnitt
See also
* Vienna Secession
*Shin-hanga
was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, that revitalized the traditional '' ukiyo-e'' art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). It maintained the traditional ''ukiyo-e' ...
References
External links
*
Emil Orlik prints, books, artwork and biography
Emil Orlík (1870–1932) – Portraits of Friends and Contemporaries
escription 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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.
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