 Praised as an intellectual as well as a painter, he moved away from Art Nouveau, studying Cubism and Expressionism, and exchanging ideas with a young Marcel Duchamp.Vorel also worked as a cartoonist for "Der Komet" magazine, befriending Albert Bloch, Hanns Bolz and Erich Mühsam, and frequenting Café Stefanie.While active in immediate proximity to the early trends in German Expressionism, including "Der Blaue Reiter", he never joined any artistic society.