Isaiah Eleven

 

Fritz Eichenberg

  1901 - 1990 (biography)

1976  

woodengraving 

8 1/2 x 6" image 

pencil, lower right 

100 

titled, lower right and inscribed "ed. 100"; block is incised with the titled, the name of the artist, and the year 

E p.157 

ivory wove 

published 

 

FE121 

$300.00 

The following is an excerpt from Robert Brown’s oral history interview with Fritz Eichenberg in 1979 (May 14 to December 7):

I'm an ardent mediator. I try to stand between two warring parties, so to speak, and I try, in my work, to express the fact that mankind has to get along with each other, whatever species there are, whatever color skin they have, whatever denomination they belong to. I want to be in the middle, and I want to spread the good word that it is possible, as it is the peaceable kingdom—Isaiah 11, you know—that people get along with each other as animals normally do. I've read up on this, and I've discovered that, among the thousands of species that exist, there are only six among the thousands which are trying to destroy their own kind. That's a very small percentage. In human life, this is taken for granted, you know. One is at war with the other.