EMIL ORLIK (Prague 1870 - 1932 Berlin) Study of a portrait lithography/paper, 38,8 x 29,2 cm signed in print E ...

EMIL ORLIK (Prague 1870 - 1932 Berlin)
Study of a portrait
lithography/paper, 38,8 x 29,2 cm
signed in print E Orlik

ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200
STARTING PRICE °€ 100

Orlik studied at Heinrich Knirr’s private painting school in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1894, he returned to Prague. A trip to Japan from 1900 to 1901 was decisive for his further artistic development. Orlik is counted among the representatives of Japonism. In 1904 he moved to Vienna. He was a member of the Vienna Secession from 1899 to 1905 and published in the Secession journal Ver Sacrum. After 1905, Orlik became a board member of Deutscher Kuenstlerbund. In 1905 Orlik received a call to Berlin as a professor at the Staatliche Lehranstalt des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums (State Teaching Institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts). He became head of the graphics class as successor to Otto Eckmann. His students included George Grosz, Hannah Hoech, Oskar Nerlinger, Josef Fenneker, Reinhold Ewald, Carl Schroeder, Gustav Berthold Schroeter, Erich Schoenfeld, Siegward Sprotte, Karl Hubbuch and Gerhard Ulrich. From 1906, Orlik was a member of the Berlin Secession and took part in their exhibitions. In 1922, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. Orlik portrayed some important contemporaries: Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Kaethe Kollwitz, Max Slevogt, Franz Werfel, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Franz Marc, Alfred Doeblin, Henrik Ibsen, Bernhard Pankok, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Max Klinger, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Jakob Wassermann and Rainer Maria Rilke, whom he knew from Prague. Apart from that, Orlik mainly implemented themes from the middle-class and rural milieu of his respective places of residence: folklore, country life, upper-class life, the big city, the exotic, distant countries – Orlik made trips to China, Russia and Egypt. On behalf of the chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, Orlik designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck collecting albums, e.g. the series "Rinderbilder" for the Stollwerck album no. 5 from 1902. In 1917 – 1918, Orlik was employed as a press draftsman at the Brest-Litovsk Conference. In collaboration with Max Reinhardt, he created stage and costume designs for the former’s productions. The art magazine Pan published etchings by Orlik as supplements in 1897, including an etching of the poster Die Weber for Gerhart Hauptmann's social drama of the same name. From 1897 to 1901, the Munich cultural magazine Die Jugend repeatedly used Orlik's images.

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