1877 Kaltenleutgeben – 1941 Vienna
Educated at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, which he attended in the years 1895-99 and 1900-1902. He spent 3 years in the special studio for ceramics and 5 semesters in Josef Hoffmann’s architecture class.
From 1903 to 1905, he lived in Göding (Moravia) as artistic and technical director of the Redlich & Berger Company.
From 1905 to 1919, he was a teacher at the Clay Industry Technical College in Znojmo. He was appointed professor in 1913. From 1919, he was professor at the Federal Technical College for the Textile Industry in Vienna, heading it from 1932. Emmel took part in numerous national and international exhibitions (in 1904, he won a gold medal at the World Exhibition in St. Louis) and was a long-time member of Österreichischer Werkbund. The artist died in Vienna on 9 March 1941.