Emilie Mediz-Pelikan

Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (2 December 1861 – 19 March 1908) was an Austrian landscape painter. Many of her works show some Symbolist influence.

Biography

Emilie Pelikan was born in Vöcklabruck, Austrian Empire in 1861. Her father was a government financial officer. In 1883, she became the last private student of the landscape painter, Albert Zimmermann, who she had earlier assisted in Salzburg. Two years later, she accompanied him to Munich, where he died in 1888. She also lived at the artists' colony in Dachau, where she worked with Adolf Hölzel and Fritz von Uhde. Later, she spent time in Paris and the artists' colony in Knokke. In 1894, they decided to settle in Dresden.