Emilie Mediz-Pelikan - Artist Info

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Emilie Mediz Pelikan
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    Emilie MEDIZ-PELIKAN
    Vöcklabruck 1861 - Dresden 1908

    Born in Upper Austria, Emilie Pelikan studied in Vienna with the landscape painter Albert Zimmerman, whom she accompanied to Munich in 1885, and her early landscapes are very much in the traditional style of her teacher. After Zimmerman’s death in 1888 she went to live in the artists’ colony in Dachau - where she first met the younger Viennese painter Karl Mediz - and also spent some time in Paris, studying the work of the Impressionist painters.

    By 1890, the year of her first gallery exhibition, Pelikan was working in the coastal town of Knokke in Belgium, where she again encountered Mediz. The two artists were married in Vie...

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