Fritz Eichenberg
The Follies Of Old Age
The Follies Of Princely Power
The Follies Of Teaching
The Follies Of The Court
The Follies Of The Monks
The Follies Of The Popes
The Follies Of War
The Follies Of Worshiping Idols
The Dream Of Reason
This portfolio of ten wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, based on Desiderius Erasmus' famous Humanist tract, was published by the Aquarius Press of New York and Baltimore in 1972 in two editions. The principal edition consisted of 150 sets of the engravings, in a custom clamshell box.
This copy is one of ten Collaborator's sets, each of which includes one of the cancelled blocks created by Eichenberg for the project. The block, housed in a well in the portfolio, was engraved for plate 5, "The Follies of Teaching"; the ten engravings are numbered V/X
Almost all of the Collaborator's portfolios are in institutional collections. This edition is rarely available for sale.
The Peaceable Tree
The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Phall
Fritz Eichenberg was born in Cologne, Germany. He worked as a printer's
apprentice and studied at both the Municipal School of Applied Arts in
Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. He began his career
as a graphic artist and illustrator in 1923, working for various
publications and as freelance illustrator. In 1933, anxious about the
rise of National Socialism, he emigrated with his wife and child to New
York. Eichenberg worked for the WPA's Federal Arts Project from his
arrival to the end of the decade. He taught art at the New School for
Social Research and at Pratt Institute, where he established and headed
the Graphic Arts Department, and opened the Pratt Graphic Arts Center in
Manhattan. He later served as the head of the art department at
University of Rhode Island, and laid out the printmaking studios there.
Eichenberg was a prolific book illustrator, and published numerous
portfolios on various themes. He died at Peace Dale, Rhode Island in
1990.
All of this is from a prospectus by the Brier Hill Gallery of Boston
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