OBJECTS Poster Art and the Portrayal of Women in Advertising Emil Orlik (1870–1932) Secession, Maskenfest Deutscher Schriftsteller und Künstler, Prag, 1899 Colour lithograph on paper; 158 x 108 cm The ball of the German society Concordia was a prestigious social affair that was widely covered in the period press, also in connection with this poster designed by Emil Orlik, a Prague German, co-founder of the German Fine Artists’ Association in Bohemia and one of the most influential graphic artists in the Czech lands of the turn of the century. A commentary in the Bohemia daily of March 5, 1899 observed that with this poster Orlik had suddently turned to Pointillism (a Modernist art movement of the time).