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title: "How Japan came to Vienna"
date: 2016-08-19
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:16:19+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-22T17:00:51Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/art-for-all-emil-orlik-japan-color-woodcut-context-en/"
description: "In 1900, Emil Orlik went in search of the real Japan. On his journey he learnt an old Japanese printing technique and brought it back to Vienna with him. But he didn’t find what he was looking for."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Header_Kunst_fuer_Alle_Emil_Orlik_Japanische_Pilger_auf_dem_Weg_zum_Fujiyama_1901.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# How Japan came to Vienna