Night Watch from 11 Prints by 11 Printmakers

Fritz EichenbergWW-1961-M059102

1961·Wood engraving from a portfolio of four woodcuts (one with wood engraving), two etchings (one with aquatint), two engravings, one wood engraving, one screenprint, and one lithograph·composition (irreg.): 13 × 13" (33 × 33 cm); sheet: 20 3/8 × 14" (51.8 × 35.5 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1961
Medium: Wood engraving from a portfolio of four woodcuts (one with wood engraving), two etchings (one with aquatint), two engravings, one wood engraving, one screenprint, and one lithograph
Dimensions: composition (irreg.): 13 × 13" (33 × 33 cm); sheet: 20 3/8 × 14" (51.8 × 35.5 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Fritz Eichenberg

Artist

Fritz Eichenberg

Printmaking

Fritz Eichenberg was an American printmaker and illustrator best known for his wood engravings and lithographs depicting social suffering and human vulnerability. Born in Germany and active from the 1920s onward, his work combined precise linear technique with unflinching subject matter: poverty, imprisonment, war, and moral conflict. His illustrated editions of classic literature, particularly Dostoyevsky and Melville, established him as a major figure in postwar American book arts. Eichenberg's formal restraint and psychological intensity made his prints vehicles for social conscience rather than decoration.

Cologne, Germany

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