Georg Ehrlich (1897 - 1966)

Georg Ehrlich

Georg Ehrlich was an Austrian and British sculptor and graphic artist.

At the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, Ehrlich mastered etching and lithography, and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He held his first solo exhibition in Munich in 1920 and won a reputation as a painter and printmaker. In 1920 he had his first solo exhibition in Munich and gained a reputation as a graphic artist working in an expressionist manner. Returning to Vienna in 1924, he began to work primarily as a sculptor in the realist style and actively participated in exhibitions.

In 1937 Ehrlich was awarded the Gold Medal at the World Exhibition in Paris, but in the same year he fled to England, and after the war, in 1947 he became a British citizen. Georg Ehrlich worked actively, creating numerous portrait and animalistic sculptures, as well as memorials, participating in numerous exhibitions. In 1963, Ehrlich became a Royal Academician.