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Emma Bormann, daughter of the ancient historian Eugen Bormann, studied at the University of Vienna from 1912 to 1917 and took part in the fourth Vienna university trip to Sicily and Tunisia in 1913, where she met Oskar Laske. In 1917, she received her doctorate in German studies and archeology. At the same time, she attended the Vienna Graphic Training and Research Institute under Ludwig Michalek from 1912 to 1916. In 1917/18, she took a course in graphic techniques at the Munich School of Applied Arts for one semester. Bormann then became a teacher at the private training workshops for graphic techniques in Munich in 1918. Her first woodcut was created in 1918, and the woodcut became her preferred means of expression. In 1920, she exhibited for the first time at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. From 1920 to 1923, she went back to the graphic arts teaching and research institute in Vienna for further training, now with Alfred Cossmann. From 1926 to 1939 she worked as a drawing lecturer at the University of Vienna. From 1920 onwards, she made numerous trips to Europe and, in 1936, to the USA. After her forced leave of absence in 1939, she went to China, where she lived in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beihai and Beijing until 1950. Then she returned to Europe via Japan, Hawaii and the USA. From 1953 Bormann lived in Tokyo, from where she traveled within Japan and to Asia. From 1957 she lived alternately with her two daughters in Tokyo and Riverside (California, USA). In 1973, she visited Vienna for the last time. Bormann produced oil paintings, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts. Popular themes included international city views seen from above and lively theater, concert and opera halls. Apart from Vienna, her prints are mainly found in art collections in English-speaking countries, e.g. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum.
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