FRITZ EICHENBERG ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

Description: Fritz Eichenberg. WERKKATALOG DER ILLUSTRIERTEN BUCHER 1922-1987 / CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 1922-1987. SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by ANTONIE EICHENBERG to LILI (LILLY) and ERICH WRONKER. ANTONIE EICHENBERG was the WIFE of FRITZ EICHENBERG (she designed this as well as many other books by her husband). LILI WRONKER, b.1924 d.2019, was a noted book illustrator, typographer and small press operator. The inscription reads: "To Lilly and Erich Wronker / Fritz would have loved to sign it - Now I have to do it to you both. / With Love / Toni / 24. XII. '90" In addition Antonie Eichenberg SIGNED her name beside the frontispiece photo of her husband (which she took): "Foto: Toni"; and again SIGNED: "Love Toni" in the margin of the Publisher's Introduction next to the German printed text (here in English): "I also feel obliged to Antonie Eichenberg, who designed the book cover and styled the typography of so many of her husband's works and without her help this book could not have been possible." MEMMINGEN: Edition Curt Visel, 1987. Text in GERMAN and ENGLISH. Hardcovers, 8x9 inches, 164 unnumbered pages. The latter half of the book is filled with examples of Fritz Eichenberg's b&w graphic works. GOOD condition: The covers are lightly soiled and have corners that are lightly bumped, else solid and bright; internally the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. A nice, presentable copy. About FRITZ EICHENBERG (from Wikipedia): ******Fritz Eichenberg b,1901 d.1990, was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany. In 1933 he fled the rise of the Nazis and emigrated with his wife and children to the United States, where he settled in New York City for most of the remainder of his life. He taught art at the New School for Social Research and the Pratt Institute and was part of the WPA's Federal Arts Project. In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg worked with many forms of literature but specialized in material with elements of spiritual and emotional conflict, illustrating such authors as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.****** About LILI WRONKER, to whom the book was inscribed (from an online obituary): ******Lili Cassel Wronker, b.1924 d.2019, was born in Berlin, Germany. She and her family fled the Nazi regime and immigrated to the United States in 1940, settling in New York. She illustrated her first children's book, The Rainbow Mother Goose, in 1947. It was described by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) as one of the "Fifty Best Books of the Year". She later taught calligraphy at the New School. In 1952 she married Erich Wronker with whom she would later run a small private press from their home. A typophile par excellence and in deep love with Judaism, Lili Wronker was a founding member of the Society of Scribes in New York. Her typographic work can be seen in hundreds of book jackets between the 1940s and ’60s. Her love of Judaism found artistic expression in her Hebrew calligraphy, which appeared in many fine art books and magazines. Her scholarly knowledge of the field led her to record a video about the history of the Hebrew alphabet.******

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