Berlin being a magnet attracting young talents from all over Central and Eastern Europe, it is not rare to see among its great artists people born far from its urban limits, or even from the Reich's borders.Take for example Emil Orlík, born in Prague in 1870, died in Berlin in 1932. Orlík was a painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator. A Czech of Jewish origin, but since Czechoslovakia, let alone Czechia, did not exist in 1870, it should rather be classified as a Bohemian of Austro-Hungarian citizenship.
He took part in the Viennese Sezession (Art Nouveau). He was strongly influenced by Japanese art, and went to Japan to learn the techniques of woodcutting. He taught at the Graphic Arts School of the Museum of Decorative Art in Berlin. If the name of Emil Orlík is not very well known today, despite the high quality of his work, that of his pupils are: Hannah Höch, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Oskar Nerlinger, Josef Fenneker and George G. Kobbe.
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| Emil Orlík, 1932 |
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| Theater poster. |
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| Portrait Albert Einstein |
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| Portrait Gustav Mahler |
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| The writer Alfred Döblin |
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| Georg Wertheim, founder of a department store chain that bore his name.
From: Emil Orlik - Herkunft: Jüdisches Museum Berlin; Fotograf: ©
1971markus, Gemeinfrei,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64339565
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Di Emil Orlik -
http://www.bassenge.com/, Pubblico dominio,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8944425
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Orlík was a photographer too. Above: Bernhard Weiss, chief of the Berlin police.
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