The Gutter
Catalogue
- Year
- 1921
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.6 × 12.7 cm (7 3/8 × 5 in.); Sheet: 31.1 × 23.2 cm (12 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Fritz Eichenberg
Artist
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.
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Night Watch from 11 Prints by 11 Printmakers
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
A.D. 1904
1937 · Wood engraving on ivory paper
Military Escort
1936 · Wood engraving on cream wove paper
Central Park Idyll
1936 · Wood engraving on cream wove paper
Preaching to the Birds
1935 · Wood engraving
Indian Pottery Vendor
1935 · Wood engraving
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- Fritz Eichenberg
- Year
- 1921
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.6 × 12.7 cm (7 3/8 × 5 in.); Sheet: 31.1 × 23.2 cm (12 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1921-092160
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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