The illustrated cards and letters that Emil Orlik sent to the art historian Max Lehrs also tell of the graphic artist’s great love of travel. The colored sketches and miniature works of art can be seen for the first time in the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg.
“I’m fine: I’m painting Jebirge,” wrote Emil Orlik in 1903 from Altaussee. Right next to the postcard is his “Mountain Landscape”, a large-format oil painting that was created in the late summer of this year in the Austrian Alps. A good idea to place the wonderfully illustrated letters and cards that the Bohemian graphic artist and painter sent to the art historian Max Lehrs between 1898 and 1930 in the context of original works and thereby comment on them. This is only possible because the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (KOG) in Regensburg has one of the largest Orlik collections of all.