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He's; In the 1920s, a full decade power in Nazi Germany, a known as Fritz Eichenberf illustrations. Intuition told the young Ge Von Hindenburg would not be friends and family behind, Ei to Guatemala, Mexico, onto T< New York. HE SENT FOR his wife an him and in 1933, Eichenburg f< U.S. depression. "I had a few me going," Mr. Eichenberg those early days in New Yor Nobody looked for me: over h( Eichenberg went to street < ti 1 a.^ t L ii was uareiy enougn w Keep i near the Washington bridge, ] he would be sharing in the 1 ment. The WPA had jljst been wood engravings to offer. In 1937, Dostoevsky's "C published with full iilustratior first big break I got," he reve 'Puss in Brots,' one of the ch nnp of thp hrMtkn of fhp vp: ",IN/ v"^ J "Saturday Night Specii wnrks about thn lax gun c Hawkins) Iuiw u .J </ IK How :0i A a succi before Adolph Hitler came to well-known artist-illustrator I was producing anti-Hitler pman. loui that ProciHant Atfn & * aukb v* tt uiuv * m wauviiv v/vvv in power for long. Leaving his chenburg traveled from Berlin exas, to Chicago and ultimately d 2Mis year-old daughter to join Dund himself in the midst of the commissions back then to keep said about selling artwork in k. "1 had nothing in the bank, sre I was not known." corners to sell his illustrations, lim going. Living in a small flat UJicnenDerg received word tnat benefits of the federal governi instituted and Eichenberg had !rime and Punishment" was is from Eichenberg. "It was the als 44 years laters. "I had done lildren's books. It was rated as ir." ?/," one of tichenberg's ontrollaws. (Photo by Stan Bfcrt (POS> 3P 8 \Ttne OKSToRE ? f /WCH OFF? * What? KI1IS 1 i ! ; , l i ! . < i > '1)1. . i I a BOOKSTORE ess st< AS THE DEPRESSION mi berg's depression about not While teaching at the New J pocketed $20 weekly. The W1 berg's biting, sarcastic editoi a popular U.S. magazine ean $60 in salary per week. "It w recalls Eichenberg. The illustrator found work teaching at Pratt Institute ir and then three days a wee Graphic Arts department rep the German took the job only friend. Eichenberg then adde< the founder of Pratt Graphic / After his long association w 70 years old, went back to u never had the time to do in the FOR THE 79-YEAR-old mi broken English and brown never really seemed to be a I demonstration of his works fo I and Science, Mr. Eichenbei contemplating the time. But the memories are still co-workers in Germany thinl the hard times of a 60 year-< i York whose meals were alwa "The people in Germany their own graves," Eichen coming for some years. Wh what I wanted, I knew I had n mi Russel "Your Partnc ory in Inskle Entertainment Mark a . . Kiatte ade its way to a close, Eichenliving comfortably also lifted. k:hool for Social Research, he PA paid about $20 and Eichenrial cartoons for "The Nation," ied him $20 for a grand total of as good money in those days," ; all along the way. He began 1 Brooklyn, N Y. first one, two k. When the chairman of the laced himself with Eichenberg, out of respect for his long-time d to his long line of credits being \rts Center in Manhattan. ith Pratt, Eichenberg, now over fork on some large projects he ipast. _ an, with the balding scalp, stillrimmed eyeglasses, time has factor. At a recent exhibitionir the Columbia Museums of Art snoke for two hours never vivid, from the thoughts of his ting Hitler was a passing fad to )ld friend on 38th Street in New ys cooked on a tiny hotplate. didn't know they were digging berg reflects. "I had seen it en I knew I couldn't say or do o future there." A IV Gener & Text v tarting I 5 BOOM : ; ? i ; 1 . " ; : t II House \r in Education 2 coun THE ARTIST ALLOWS that he m even if Hitler had not come to powei 1 !!I4. Germany. 1 was noi a guou mum refused to join the army." Eichenberg's display at the Colur 97 picture frames. In each of the frai German's life. From his days in Ber first days in New York City, th< meaning. His wood engravings lithographs have the flair, style and viewer. Guest Director Gene Baro helped writes this about Eichenberg: "He creating an image so right spiritual an inevitable emanation of the write] MR. FRITZ EICHENBERG say __i ?> :r i? rt I aSIltifc, II I1C smjfCU ill uciiuaujr. a that wasn't the problem. The prob himself as a great artist in a differe Mr. Eichenberg has solved that prob ^ iSp ^ ' ~ "' M Mr. Fritz Eichenberg (Phot MWWIWWWW?g^^ al Book! ind Books tfhen? February at [ Store mmmm tries ? light have left Germany r. "I was disgusted with arist and I would have N nuia museum cunuuueu Ties was a glimpse of the iin to impressions of his ey each had a special are masterful. His I honesty to enthrall any select the exhibition and has the enviable gift of ly that it comes to seem r's ideas." s "I would be a pile of Jut as the years passed, ilem was re-establishing nt country. For 48 years, >lem a thousandfold. j i o by Chip Lowell) Vo | ^ 1 I 16th