Max Klinger
Emil Orlik
1902
Medium
etching and roulette printed in orange on buff laid paper [proof]
Dimensions
plate: 29 x 21 cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 41.5 x 26.5 cm (16 5/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2012.65.3
About the Artist
Emil Orlik · 1870–1932
Emil Orlík (1870–1932) was a Czech painter, etcher, and lithographer whose cosmopolitan career bridged the artistic centers of Prague, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Tokyo. Born on July 21, 1870, in Prague, Orlík became one of the most important promoters of Japanese art and woodcut techniques in early twentieth-century Europe, directly studying traditional Japanese printmaking methods during two ext...