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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Sunderland
The Prints of Erwin Eisch
Furthering Petrie’s research into print and glass, this essay is the first to focus on Erwin Eisch’s printmaking. Erwin Eisch (b1927 Germany) is an internationally respected artist, known for his glass sculptures. He is also a painter, draughtsman and printmaker and is significant as a pioneer of the ‘Studio Glass’ movement. This essay provides focused insights, relevant to both the glass and print fields into this aspect of Eisch’s career. Most crucially, it has recorded Eisch's own thoughts on his prints, which have not been published to date. This is timely given his 85th birthday and the 50th year of the 'Studio Glass' movement in 2012. The research allowed access to all of Eisch's prints, at the 'Eisch Foundation' in Germany and an interview was also conducted with Eisch and his wife and archivst Gretel. The essay is published in the book: ‘Erwin Eisch: Wolken waren schon immer mein letzter Halt. Glas und Bilder /Erwin Eisch: Clouds have been my foothold all along. Glass and Paintings. German and English Munich’ published in Munich by Hirmer 2012 (ISBN: 9783777451916).
The book was reviewed in several German publications and by the Contemporary Glass Society, where Catherine Coleman MBE commented that, ‘Kevin Petrie’s lucid account of the printmaking shines.”
