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The portraitist and pioneering printmaker Emil Orlik was born into a Jewish family in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 21 July 1870; his father and brother, Hugo, were both master tailors. The family was part of the large German-speaking community (known as the Bohemian Germans), whose artistic circle included the writer Franz Kafka and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Orlik drew from a young age and enrolled at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where one of his fellow pupils was Paul Klee, before studying at the Munich Academy, where he drew a portrait of Rilke (among others) and won a silver medal in 1893. He later learned engraving from Johann Leonhard Raab and experimented with various printmaking processes. He shared an admiration for Japanese woodcuts with his fellow pupil and lifelong friend Bernhard Pankok with whom he experimented in printmaking techniques. Orlik produced successful graphic work for the magazine Jugend (Youth) and the prestigious periodical

Ben Uri collection - artists Ben Uri collection Work by Emil Orlik Biography The portraitist and pioneering printmaker Emil Orlik was born into a Jewish family in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 21 July 1870; his father and brother, Hugo, were both master tailors. The family was part of the large German-speaking community (known as the Bohemian Germans), whose artistic circle included the writer Franz Kafka and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Orlik drew from a young age and enrolled at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where one of his fellow pupils was Paul Klee, before

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