Emil Wallner

Emil Wallner
Resident

Emil Wallner is the maker of Palette, an AI-based photo editor. Journalists use Palette to turn century-old photos into modern-looking shots; game developers use it to explore light conditions in concept art; and artists use it to experiment with different color palettes.

Emil is known for colorizing Gustav Klimt’s Faculty Paintings with AI. The paintings were destroyed during the second world war, and only black and white photos remain. The project was exhibited at Museo di Roma on Piazza Navona alongside other famous Klimt works such as the Portrait of a Lady. The colorizations were featured in the Washington Post the Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

In addition to working on Palette, Emil is an artist-in-residence at Google in Paris. He is self-taught in Machine Learning and a 42 Paris alumnus.