Alfred Moritz Mailick (1869–1946) was a German artist and book-illustrator. He always signed his work Mailick, but in his private life until 1906 he used the spelling Meilick, with the same pronunciation.Erik Mailick, Wildmaler, mailick.de, accessed 5 August 2026
Life Born in 1869 in Dresden,MAILICK Alfred (1869 Drezno - 1946), artinfo.pl, accessed 5 August 2026 Mailick trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and became a successful artist and book illustrator, working in a romantic style inspired by the world of nature.
In 1896, Mailick illustrated Peter Rosegger's book Der Waldvogel,”Fiction (German)” in Bulletin (Cincinnati, Ohio, Public Library, 1896), p. 38 and in 1898 his Der Waldjugend.Peter Rosegger, Idyllen aus einer untergehenden Welt (Staackmann, 1899), p. 3 A reviewer said of this “Alfred Mailick has provided a wealth of charming pictorial illustrations for this Rosegger book.”Franz Klutschak, Bernhard Gutt, Bohemia: ein Unterhaltungsblatt (1897), p. 4
From about 1900, much of Mailick's work was published as postcards printed in colour. He married Rosa Niedermeyer from Bavaria, and their daughter Erika was born in 1902. In the same year, he built a large house, with an artist's studio for himself, on the Bahnhofstraße in Moritzburg, Saxony, designed by Richard Riemerschmid. In 1922, this was sold and the family moved into rooms at Berbisdorf Moated Castle in Radeburg.
One of Mailick's two sons, Erik Mailick (d), followed in his father's footsteps and was also a successful artist.
Mailick died in 1946 in Moritzburg, which was then in the post-war Soviet occupation zone.Iris Kretschmann, Inspiration Moritzburg: Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert [Catalogue of a special exhibition in Moritzburg between 12 May and 5 August 2001] (Stiftung Käthe-Kollwitz-Gedenkstätte, 2001) p. 150
Work At the Haus Lawaczeck Museum in Nieukerk, Kerken, North Rhine-Westphalia, one room exhibits a collection of work by Mailick with a hunting theme. Illustrationen von Alfred und Erik Mailick (Vater und Sohn), detlef-heinsohn.de, accessed 5 August 2026
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