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When Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was commissioned to illustrate Jane Eyre for Random House in 1943, he had never read the novel or been to Britain. Working from New York during World War II, he approached Charlotte Brontë’s story through Jane’s own sharp and honest perspective. Eichenberg, a German-born artist who […]
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American artist, printmaker, and book illustrator, recognized as one of the leading masters of 20th-century wood engraving. He was born in Cologne into a Jewish family and studied at the Cologne Municipal School of Applied Arts, later continuing at the Academy of Graphic Arts in […]