Edmund Pick-Morino was born in Hungary and his family soon moved to Vienna, where
he spent his school years. He completed his artistic training in Munich. From 1898, he
studied at the academy under Hackl, Herterich and Löfftz. However, the young artist did
not receive the decisive impressions from his teachers, but from the works of Carl Schuch
and Lovis Corinth. His travels abroad were also important for his development - his
studies with Böcklin in Florence and his stay in Paris. His involvement with French
Impressionism and Cézanne's approach to painting gave him new impetus. The artist
lived in Vienna and Baden from 1910 and joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1921. In 1929,
Pick-Morino moved to Fontainebleau and travelled to the south of France, Italy and the
Middle East, as well as to Germany and Hungary. Budapest was where he spent the last
twenty years of his life. Still lifes, landscapes and portraits were his themes. Pick-Morino's
works are characterised by their high colour culture and the physicality of the sitter, even
if the ‘aesthetic essence of appearance’, in the words of Carl Schuch, is captured through
his Impressionist style of painting and his attention to tonality. In the 1920s, his brushwork
became more impasto, lively and flamboyant.