Life During World War II
Then, in 1942, the war arrived on the Italian front. Amidst the horrors of the war, Emil lost his studio, along with all his possessions, in a bombardment. He spent the next few years in a high mountain village named Asiago. Amazingly, even with the disparity of war and losing everything, his hand never stopped painting. During this period, he created several large compositions, mountain-scenes, landscapes and depictions of the lives of the local people. After returning from a life in the mountains, he started to exhibit his new paintings that he painted during the war. In 1946, he was elected Councilor of Italian Art. However, life wasn’t the same in Italy anymore and he heard much about the great and free country of the United States of America. This time, Italy proved to be too small to house Emil’s work and ambition. In 1956, the same year of the Hungarian Uprising, he decided to move to New York City.
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