Emil Orlik - “Memories of seaside”

Emil Orlik (21 July 1870 Prague – 28 September 1932 Berlin)
“Memories of seaside”
Sheet 34 from the series: Small Woodcuts 1896-1899
Publisher: Neue Kunsthandlung, Berlin 1920
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Very high quality and beautiful sheet from this series! Very rare!
Guaranteed original woodcut by Emil Orlik
Framed in passepartout under glass
Signed by the artist at the bottom right: Orlik
Newspaper clipping attached to the back with reference to an Orlik exhibition at Bodo Niemann in Berlin (probably once purchased there)
Display size: 193 x 99 mm
Sheet probably: 243 x 153 mm (unfortunately NOT recognizable, as still originally sealed!)
Total dimensions with frame: 32.5 x 21.5 cm
Strip in real gold plating
The woodcut is in good condition, see photos.
Note: Alleged creases are probably related to the mounting in the passepartout! After opening the still sealed frame, these marks could probably be smoothed out.
Frame in very good condition, with slight signs of wear. Ready to hang immediately!
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Other copies include:
Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden (State Art Collections Dresden);
MoMA, German Expressionist Works Online, New York;
Büchel Museum, Rote Burg, Aachen
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SHIPPING
The shipping costs in Germany are 7,- Euro (DHL, parcel)
EU: 18 euros (insured shipping with DHL). Shipping with the glass at the buyer's risk! Very careful packaging is guaranteed. Privately owned, no warranty of any kind. However, the authenticity of the woodcut is expressly guaranteed! Guaranteed: It is an original woodcut by Emil Orlik (1870-1932). Very safe packing will be guaranteed!
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Orlik worked primarily as a draftsman and graphic artist (etchings and woodcuts). His motifs include portraits of important contemporaries, including Henrik Ibsen, Bernhard Pankok, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Max Klinger, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Jakob Wassermann and Rainer Maria Rilke, whom he had known from Prague since 1896. "The subject matter of his works is rooted in the lower middle class and rural milieu of his respective places of residence... This also outlines the themes in Orlik's work...: folklore, country life, the sophisticated, the big city and its inhabitants, the exotic, the distant countries of the Orient and East Asia."

Orlik was commissioned by the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to design trading cards for Stollwerck albums, including the series “Cattle Pictures” for Stollwerck album No. 5 from 1902. From 1917 to 1918 Orlik worked as a press illustrator at the Brest-Litovsk Conference. During Orlik's time in Berlin he created 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, among others. In collaboration with Max Reinhardt he created stage and costume designs for his productions.
In 1897, the art magazine Pan published small etchings by Orlik as supplements, including a small-format etching of the poster The Weavers for Gerhart Hauptmann's social drama of the same name. In a letter to the poet dated September 13, 1897, he referred to the reproduction of the poster in this magazine, which is considered "the cornerstone of the German social poster." From 1897 to 1901, the Munich cultural magazine Die Jugend repeatedly used graphics and pictures by Orlik.