Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg

When Fritz Eichenberg emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1933, he was young and green. The Depression was raging, and he had little going for him but an art school education and a deeply ingrained longing to be an artist.

Fifty years later, Eichenberg's wood engravings and lithographs had received international acclaim and had, in one sense, brought music into the lives of numberless people. Art critics admired his sense of drama, his power, his passion for his craft. And thousan...