Emil OrlÃk
Emil Orlik, Emil Orlik actually, ( born July 21, 1870 in Prague, † September 28, 1932 in Berlin) was a Bohemian painter, graphic designer, photographer and artisan.
Life
Orlik was the son of the Prague Jewish master tailor Moritz Orlik (1832-1897) and his wife Anna, nee Stone. After graduating from high school in 1889 in Prague, he studied from 1889 to 1893 at the private painting school Heinrich Knirrs in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1894 he returned to Prague, where he established himself in 1897 finally with its own studio. Decisive for his further artistic development a trip to East Asia to Japan from 1900 to 1901. 1904 he moved to Vienna to. He was from 1899 to 1905 member of the Vienna Secession and published in the Secession magazine "Ver Sacrum". A reputation as a professor at the State educational institution of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts ( since 1924 United State Schools for Free and Applied Art) Head of the graph class, where he became the successor of Otto Eckmann was, a year later to move him to Berlin. Among his pupils there are familiar names such as George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Oskar Nerlinger, Josef Fenneker, but also less well-known such as Carl Schroeder and the silent Gustav Berthold Schroeter. Since 1906, Orlik was a member of the Berlin Secession and participated in their exhibitions.
Berlin remained until his death Orliks City, and from there he traveled almost every year to southern Europe, France and Switzerland, in 1912, followed by the second, extended Asia trip that took him through China, Korea and Japan. He died on 28 September 1932 in Berlin.
Work
Orlik worked primarily as a draftsman and printmaker ( etchings and woodcuts ). His subjects include portraits of important contemporaries (including by Henrik Ibsen, Bernhard Pankok, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Max Klinger, Rainer Maria Rilke (whom he had known since 1896 Prague) and Jakob Wassermann ). " The theme of his work is rooted in middle-class and rural life in his respective whereabouts ... This means that the topics are in the works ... Orliks outlined: the folk, country life, the mundane, the city and its inhabitants, and the exotic, the distant countries of the East and East Asia. "
Orlik was commissioned by the Cologne Chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck collecting images for Stollwerck scrapbooks, including the series " cattle pictures " for the Stollwerck Scrapbook no. 5 of 1902. 1917-1918 Orlik was employed by the Brest- Litovsk Conference as a press artist. Among others, emerged in Orliks time in Berlin Portraits of Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Slevogt, Franz Werfel, Rudolf Steiner, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Franz Marc and Alfred Döblin. In collaboration with Max Reinhardt, he created for his productions stage and costume designs.
As side dishes, the art magazine published in 1897 Pan small etchings by Orlik, including a small-scale etching of the poster The Weber Gerhart Hauptmann's social drama of the same name. In a letter of 13 September 1897 the poet, he referred to the reproduction of the poster in this journal, which is considered " the cornerstone of the German social poster " From 1897 to 1901 used the Munich cultural journal The youth repeatedly graphics and images Orliks .
Japonism
After his first trip to Japan in 1900/ 01 Orlik created works that were inspired by Japanese woodblock print. You count him therefore to the artists Japonism. Orlik also took trips to China, Russia and Egypt.
Orlik collected works of art from the Far East and was 1909 Lender of the exhibition " Japan and East Asia in the art."
Exhibitions
- 2012: Emil Orlik. Master graphics, Edenkoben, Max Slevogt Gallery Castle Villa Ludwigshoehe
- 2012: Like a dream. Emil Orlik in Japan. Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, 12 October 2012-27. January 2013
- 2012: Between Japan and America. Emil Orlik. An artist of the century. East German Gallery Regensburg, November 18, 2012-3. February 2013
- 2014: Emil Orlik. Between Japan and America., Kathe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, February 1st - 27th April 2014