The Follies of Princely power

Date 1972
Technique Wood Engraving
Price $500.00
Exhibitor Stone and Press Gallery
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b/w wood engraving

197

18 x 12

edition: 150

signed in pencil.  


Fritz Eichenberg created ten wood engravings to illustrate 'The Praise of Folly' by Erasmus. This particular image seems to portray the idea that "War, civil society and the arts are all founded on foolishness." German born wood engraver and lithographer, Eichenberg studied at the School of Applied Arts in Cologne before moving to Berlin where he was a reporter and staff artist for the Ullstein Publishing House. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Eichenberg moved to New York where he taught at the New School for Social Research and worked on the Federal Art Project. He taught at the Pratt Institute and served as the director of the Pratt Graphics Center where he edited 'Artist’s Proof', a journal on printmaking. In 1966, Eichenberg moved to Rhode Island and chaired the Art Department of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. His wood engravings and lithographs are almost always associated with literary sources. His prints are in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Yale University Library, the Hermitage, the Vatican, the Bibliotheque Nationale.