
Catalogue
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Image: 24cm x 18cm (9 7/16" x 7 1/16")
- Collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Emil Orlik
Artist

Printmaking
Emil Orlik was a German printmaker and painter who worked primarily in lithography and woodcut, techniques he mastered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His prints often depicted theatrical subjects, portraits, and scenes of urban life with a distinctive linear clarity and psychological acuity. Based in Berlin, Orlik became a significant figure in German Modernism, bridging Symbolism and Expressionist approaches through his graphic work. He was also an influential teacher whose methods shaped the next generation of German printmakers.
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1922 · etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Portret van Richard Strauss
1917 · drypoint on paper
Max Slevogt
1917 · drypoint and rocker with graphite and white heightening on laid paper [working proof]
Soldaten in sneeuwgebergte
1915 · etching on Japanese paper (handmade paper)
Chinese Actor and Two Sketches of a Woman's Head
1912 · black crayon and watercolor, with gouache (main figure); black crayon (partially erased, left head); black crayon (right head)
Pascin, Drawing (Pascin, zeichnend)
1911 · Etching, drypoint, and roulette
Record
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- Emil Orlik
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Image: 24cm x 18cm (9 7/16" x 7 1/16")
- Watts ID
- WW-1917-054352
Source
- Collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- Source
- smithsonian
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




