Night Watch
Fritz Eichenberg
1961
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View on museum website →Medium
wood engraving in black on Japanese wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 50.8 × 35.88 cm (20 × 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy
Accession Number
2019.109.58.3
About the Artist
Fritz Eichenberg
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), born in Cologne, Germany, to a Jewish family, endured the harrowing bombings of World War I as a child, experiences that ignited his lifelong commitment to anti-war themes and social satire. After apprenticing as a printer and studying at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne, he honed his craft at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig under the mentorship ...