THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF FRITZ EICHENBERG HD 1080p
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- This video about the spectacularly talented Fritz Eichenberg is not an exhaustive look at his entire body of work. In his lifetime he created a vast amount of illustration and graphic art, and consequently I have confined myself to a review of many, but far from all his many achievements.
But I hope that what there is gives a balanced and absorbing account of what I think are some genuine highlights. And although much of his work is not for those who don't share his obvious fascination for the darker side of life there are also a reasonable number of examples of his more lighthearted work too.
And for thse who need a text file here are 76-100. The rest can be found at 75 and 76
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Daniel Vierge
Albert Guillaume
Gwynned M. Hudson
Rube Goldberg
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Gabriele Galantara (Ratalanga)
Ezio Anichini
Giuseppe Riccobaldi
Mario Laboccetta
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Ray Lambert
Robert Högfeldt
Eileen Mayo
Nicolas Bentley
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Manuel Orazi
Donald McGill
José Segrelles
Eryk Lipinski
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Fritz Kredel
Rex Whistler
Antonio Petruccelli
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Walt McDougall
Rie Cramer
Jacques Touchet
C.C. Beall
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Janet Laura Scott
Robert Gibbings
Arne Ungermann
William Neave Parker
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Alfred Leete
Ludwig Kainer
Jean d'Ylen
Barbara Shermund
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Hermann Stockmann
Georges de Feure
Honor Appleton
Luigi Martinati
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F. M. Howarth
Edward Penfield
Heinrich Vogeler
Nathalie Parain
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José Posada
Paul Rieth
Henry Morin
Mabel Lucie Attwell
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E. T. Reed
Raphael Kirchner
Miska & Maud Petersham Josef Fenneker
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Sidney Sime
Ferdinand von Řezníček
René Giffey
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
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Georges Goursat (Sem)
Maxwell Armfield
Ernest Aris
Cardwell Higgins
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Arpad Schmidhammer
Howard V. Brown
Henry Fournier
Aage Sikker Hansen
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Elizabeth MacKinstry
Charles Verschuuren
Herry Perry
H. J. Ward
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Theo van Hoytema
Thomas Derrick
Mahlon Blaine
Peggy Bacon
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Henri Lanos
Clive Gardiner
Hal Foster
Helen Haywood
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Henri Privat Livemont Raymond de la Nezière Thomas Maitland Cleland
Joan Hassall
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Charles Pears
Henri Mirande
Alice Bolam Preston
Stephen Gooden
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Adolf Hengeler
Achille Beltrame
Lucian Bernhard
Pierre Brissaud
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Aurelius Battaglia
Brian Cook Batsford
Jacques Nathan
Garamond
Jerzy Srokowski
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Apel les Mestres
Henri Thiriet
Wallace Morgan
Dora Batty
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Joseph Sattler
Donn P. Crane
Zyg Brunner
Eric Rohman
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G. L. Stampa
Leo Cheney
William Ridgewell
L. R. Brightwell
Exquisite. I must really get my oldest brother Tim (he's 77 and I'm 67) to come over so I can play these dissertations from our laptop to the telly. He'd be thrilled to pieces, I'm sure!!!
Hello again and I hpe you're not disappointed on the big screen. But if you have a smart TV you don't need the laptop.
@@petebeard I don't want a smart TV. The idea creeps me out.
“Wow.” I found myself saying this again and again with every engraving. I knew of this artist vaguely, so thank you, Pete, for revealing more of his astonishing portfolio of work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and enthusiastic reponse to Eichenberg's remarkable body of work.
Very enlightening. My mother studied art after high school, in the 1930's in Colorado, working most in charcoal and then oil. She did some nice work, then paused to raise her family. In retirement she again took it up, experimenting with water color. She was actually quite good I think. But I never realized her taste in art and books for us children highly affected my appreciation of said art. I vividly remember coming across "Mistress Masham's repose" with the Eichenberg illustrations as a child and loving not just for the story but also the pictures..Mistress Masham was a favorite much reread book for years. Not so much a favorite were two large books, identical in format, of "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" with the Eichenberg illustrations. It never occurred to me that all these books were illustrated by the same artist. Thank you so much for your series which has made more obvious to me the gift my mother gave us in both books and art.
Hello and many thanks for your positive comment and personal insight about Eichenberg's wonderful work. I must confess I had never encountered him until a handful of years back when I started making these videos. He became an instant personal favourite.
His black & white work is so incredibly rendered. I was drawn to the emotional tone he could get from simple black on white.
What a long career.
Another fantastic episode.
Hello again and many thanks as ever for your appreciation. I must confess I thought this video would be more popular than it currently seems to be, but I long ago gave up trying to figure out what people do and don't feel drawn to. So I'm glad that you and some other viewers admire him as much as I do.
Visually stunning. Love the amount of black & white art in his work. Again another superb video !
Thanks for your fantastic work.
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation as always.
Glad to see you back, Pete. And, as always, you never disappoint with yet another delightful video.
Hi and thanks a lot as usual.
Wonderful, Pete. Eichenberg has always been a favorite. Of course, I know him mostly for his block illustrations, so it was a treat to see some of his other techniques. As a book illustrator myself, I especially appreciated your comments on how he captured the essence of the writer's words, the unwritten "soul" of the story he was illustrating, adding to the reader's experience, the most important job of an illustrator. Great video. And welcome back! At the risk of assuming I can speak for other subscribers to your channel, we missed your weekly foray into the wonderful world of illustration. Hope you had a good rest. Cheers!
Hello again Doug. Good to hear from you. I must confess that although I'm wildly impressed (who wouldn't be?) with the engravings they do get a bit relentlessly doomladen for me. It's the frivolous pen and inks - and particularly Miss Masham - that really appeal, and fill me with seething envy. The holiday was great and like life, all too brief.
You've given us another wonderful glimpse of illustration treasures from an earlier time. I can't be sure, but some of Eichenberg's later illustrations looked familiar to me. Keep these gems coming.
Me too. I suspect his style is so unique, that like me, you saw it, but didn't connect it with a name, like so much illustrative work. Shame really, but Pete is doing a lot to rectify that!
Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed his work. He was pretty bi-polar in his choice of subjects.
Bipolar fits exactly! (spent some of my years nursing in a psych ward, and that ability to not focus is one sign...)@@petebeard
Another splendid video, thank you. I like this fellow's work.
Hi again and thanks as ever.
His work is excellent. I love the execution of his graphite drawings, with their soft tones, as well as the sharper imagery of the ink work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. Ultinately it's the ink work that really does it for me - so expressive and elegant.
Incredibly prolific and spanned the whole of the 20th century. Great video as usual.
Hello and many thaks for the comment.
Thanks again Pete for another foray into illustration. So much work and skill that seems to go unoticed in a world of instant imagery. For those who've never found themselves, poised over a blank piece of paper, with a pencil in their hand. . .
Hello and many thanks for your comment. And it's hard to look at skill and imagination such as this and not feel a certain despair at the current state of things. Or maybe - in my case at least - it's just the perennial grumble of the aged. More positively I recently discovered a number of contemporary illustrators who seem to be keeping the flame lit and they will feature in future videos, I hope.
So many people seem to think that art is trivial and never realise the actual truth of its purpose. I'm just now watching 'Blind Dweller's' TH-cam about Kathe Kollwitz. There must be a million ways to express the heart, but the immediacy and hard hitting nature of her [quite basic] print making techniques has that base purity that carries such tough material to the core of one's soul. Here's to hope, Pete. Cheers
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I always find your narrative just as inspiring as the art when I watch these.
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. Many thanks for the comment.
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Thanks Pete for your time in sharing the bountiful harvest of incredible artists and their works. It is a very rich and educational experience for all of us. Your expertise is always appreciated ❤
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation.
A most inspiring and enjoyable video. Thank you for the excellent work in compiling these interesting videos.
Hello again and thanks as ever for your positive comment.
I remember his illustrations for the "Jungle Book". They were beautiful, powerful and really drew you into the story.
Hello again and many thanks for your comment. He was an exceptional talent, for sure.
Thanks for the "full treatment" of Eichenberg. I have always admired his work. THanks for your research and excellent presentations!
Hello and many thanks for your comment. Eichenberg is just one of several who I rather squandered in the unsung heroes series. So now I'm trying to make amends with a closer and longer look.
Thanks for introducing me to this wonderful artist, who was totally unknown to me until few minutes ago.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I only discovered him a few years ago and I'm very old.
A wonderful overview of the great artist, Fritz Eichenberg. Thank-you. The Catholic Worker still reprints his work along with many other artists inspired by his techniques as well as faith. I missed seeing his large scale, for him, wood engravings of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales. The publisher, New Directions, offered the actual prints in a signed edition of 100 numbered copies, of which my wife and I purchased copy 98 for ourselves when we married in 1975.
Thanks a lot for your comments and appreciation of this video.
All I can say is wow, and thank you, another amazing video, and illustrator I was not aware of. When I saw the images from the _Jungle Book_ , I realized that he must have illustrated the edition I read as a child. Thank you again for putting a name to an artist who has influenced my work, and I didn't know who he was
Hello again and many thanks for your favourable comment. And I'm glad to have connected the dots regarding Jungle Book.
I enjoyed seeing the variety of his excellent work. I'm also glad that he escaped with his family. I can see where the dark side was influenced by his life experiences.
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Hello again and thanks a lot for your continuing appreciation. That concentraton camp/nazi wood engraving towards the end is a particularly chilling reminder of the horrors. I'm pleased to see he also had a more frivolous side too - and those Miss Masham pen drawings are a real joy.
So many tremendously strong images, once again from an artist I did not know of before your programme. Thank you so much for your tremendous educational and entertaining work!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I can't think of another illustrator who appeared so at home switching from the darkest images to frivolity. Remarkable.
As always, beautiful and presented with class., thank you Pete 😊
Hi and thanks a lot. I like the idea of being 'classy'. I'm actually common as muck as we say in these parts.
Thanks for the spotlight on a wonderful illustrator i've never heard of until now. Love the use of line weight in his pen and ink illustrations. Will definitely be checking out more of his work now!
Hello and many thanks for your comment. I'm very pleased to have introduced you to his marvellous work.
Wow, what a prolific and ponderously talented artist! Thanks Pete!
You are more than welcome. Thanks for the comment.
And forthwith she went to delve further into the fascinating world of Fritz Eichenberg. Thank you for suggesting it, I loved every minute of this portrait.
All of his work is impressive, I tend to lean towards the lighter side, preferring generally to smile instead of pondering the abyss that is humanity. The research and compilation to present a video like this must be incredibly time-consuming.
Tripled, quadrupled and quintupled when Unsung Heroes are being discussed. Your work is lovely to look at and delightful to listen to. Ta very much
Thanks - I rather hoped you would enjoy it. I tend to agree about the light/dark elements of his work, but having said that I'm in awe of his work for Poe.More importantly, youtube are really starting to get on my nerves with the underperformance of their algorithm (whatever that is) when it comes to my little channel. Maybe I should start making baby panda videos...
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I believe Influencer is the way to go. Anything herd-like, mainstream and pedestrian and you are sought after.
Oddly enough, my subscription to your channel disappeared (I subscribed when I found the Don Quixote video). Recently, I had to re-subscribe.
"Liking" and commenting apparently also helps the channel, as does sharing. I will continue my scrutiny of your videos - still often seeking out the (undeservedly!) less viewed ones. I have a thing about the underdog.
Thank you Pete for taking the time to do this series. I have discovered quite a few artists thanks to your videos that have now become staples of mine. Thank you for putting in the time!
Hello and that's great to know. Thanks a lot for your comment.
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Always fun to be introduced to new books illustrated by such an amazing artist!! “Mischief in Fez” has been added to my collection of Arabian Nights-style books!
Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment. The Arabian Nights and related stories do seem to be a staple for great illustration, especially in the golden age.
What a gift on a gloomy Saturday afternoon. Thank you, Sir!
Hello again and many thanks for the positive comment.
Again, well done. Your short pieces convey a deft touch and exhibit a level of class that's rare for youtube.
Hello again and thanks again for your appreciation. It's always welcome.
Another awesome video about an amazing artist! Thank you💙🙏🏽😎
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I like to think there's no sign of me 'scraping the bottom of the barrel' just yet.
Thanks, Pete; what a wonderful and up until now, completely unknown artist for me. Keep up the excellent work!
Hello again and I'm very glad to have introduced you to his work. Thanks for the comment.
How was the vacation? Hope you're all rested. This was outstanding, even if it's not really my style. Learning about these artists and being exposed to the variety of illustrators is enormously entertaining and educational...thank you!
The break was terrific - Spain's Costa del Sol. I would move there but the current wife wont hear of it. Thanks as ever for your appreciation.
@@petebeardI hope that your current wife is loved and is very comfortable in the process of life unfolding in a way that makes you both feel content and fulfilled. I just got a little bit of sadness in the statement that you made.
Marriage is a very blessed and very rewarding experience in our lives with sharing our lives with our best friend and the ability to make decisions for the benefit of each other in a place of respect and love ❤
I think that you were just being humorous 😮?!
@@parry3231 Hello and yes I was making a little joke. We are immensely happy.
@@petebeard I'm so glad to hear. Thanks for your comment and I am sorry I missed the joke.
I used to refer to my husband as my first husband.
I Love This Series! Thank You Mr. Beard!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Its very welcome and so are you.
Wow, what a wonderful visual journey through this great artist’s work, so much to absorb & relish in one view, will be revisiting again very soon, thank you so much
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm delighted you find his work as remarkable as I do.
Well, this is great news, Pete! So glad you're starting on the NEXT 100 episodes. ;)
Hi again and thanks a lot.
This guy must be the pre eminent artist doing this sort of white on black technique. Thanks, Pete
This is great.😊
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I can't begin to imagine how difficult that method must be. It's all I can do to handle a pen or brush.
Thank you so much for another wonderful video.
Hello again and thanks as usual for your ongoing appreciaton of the channel content.
I imagine one day I'll see an image I remember from my reading but these biographies are so good the search can happily last a long time..
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment about the channel content. It's appreciated.
Really something, his wood engravings!
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They certainly are. I would not know where to begin.
Clearly a master of his chosen techniques. And though something about the artist’s final vision was pretty consistently not my cup of tea, as always the video was an engaging, informative, and thorough way to find out. Always a fan of this channel!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I don't expect viewers to necessarily like the illustrators I feature - sometimes I don't care for them much. But I'm glad that even when that's the case you find the content worthwhile.
Superb work thank you so much Mr Pete❤
Thanks a lot on behalf of me and Mr. Eichenberg.
I like the depth of his work. Thanks
Hello and I'm glad you apprecite his work.
Very very interesting. Thanks. 👍
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm pleased you enjoyed his work.
Another great one Pete. The work he did that you called wood engraving looks a lot like scratch board. For those unfamiliar scratch board is like white cardstock with a shinny black surface and you create images by scratching away the black revealing the white beneath, using an exacto knife. I use the knife the same way you use pen and ink with cross-hatching and line width, but you have to wrap your head around drawing a negative in a way because the shadow is already there and you have to draw the light. The results are quite good because of the high contrast, but erasing is impossible. Fritz has obviously mastered this technique, which is always distinguishable from his other work because of the nature of the medium. I haven't done any research so this medium could be the same. Thank you so much.
Hello again and yes I suppose that scratchboard and white line engraving are similar. Certainly both of them make me slackjawed with admiration as techniques, and as you say you need to invert conventional drawing wisdom. It was all I could do to manage a paint brush.
Thank you for making a video of this, until now unknown to me, artist. Prolific indeed. He seemed to have a great sense of when black and white would be more impactful to the narrative (though I suspect that color printing being more expensive had some impact in the decision). Particularly impactful to me was the print of the holocaust camp with the names of each one.
Hello and many thabks for your appreciation of this video and Eichenberg's remarkably eloquent work. Such skill and imagination isn't often found.
Thank you very much again.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
That was outstanding. Keep up the good work.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work. He deserves much greater recogbition as far as Im concerned.
Another fabulous episode (although not all images were to my taste). Thanks Pete.
Hello again and thans as ever. I must admit the relentlessly grim wood engravings were a bit much for me (even though I'm slackhawed with admiration). The frivolous pen and ink stuff is much more to my taste.
Another supremely talented master of many styles, all the more noteworthy and important in this era of style-constraint to the point of self-caricature a la Kincaid and Roger Dean. I remember well the illustrations from Black Beauty (a book that also taught me about propaganda) and the Jungle Book!
Hello again and thanks for the comment. To be so able in all those mediums is a rare thing indeed. And versatility does rather seem to be off the contemporary agenda.
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I agree that *Eichenberg's* emotions shine through his work & his color art is beautiful. Also, perspective is so difficult (for me anyway) & his use of it is wonderful; I've found it difficult to get a grip on but, still trying ...😊🤔His alphabet book was adorable & I bet children loved learning w/ that & he made the letters rhyme ... clever
Hi and thanks a lot for your appreciatuon and comment about Eichenberg. I don;t think I;ve ever encountered another illustrator who was so wide ranging in his techniques and types of work. I do find the wood engravings a bit relentlessly depressing but the children's work is as you say a real tonic.
I have copy of Mischief in Fez, collected in a children's anthology. I've loved it - and the illustrations - ever since I read it.
Hello and thanks for your comment. I must confess that until I made the video I didn't know of that book's existence.
Great video. Had never heard of him.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Its a real pleasure to introduce these illustrators to viewers who hadn't heard of them.
LOVE IT! Thanks as always.
Hello again and thanks for the appreciation.
Thank you. Well done.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Fantastic thank you
...and thanks once more.
Welcome back, man!! I missed you!!!!! I must say, though, that I prefer Lucy Kemp-Welch's illustrations to Black Beauty (now there's a forgotten artist/illustrator for you!).
Hello and thanks for the comment. And thanks for introducing me to the work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, who I had never previously encountered. A quick google indicates she was much more the artist than illustrator and probably not a suitable candidate for the series, but I'll take a closer look and see what I can find. Either way thanks for the knowledge.
STILL GREAT--THANKS!!!!
Hello and thanks for the appreciation.
WOW!
My family had a copy of his collected illustrated Shakespeare. I first read Hamlet and the Tempest in that book. At the church where I go for social services there is a reproduction on the wall of a woodcut of Christ standing in line at a soup kitchen. The church is Methodist but like many churches around here it has Quaker links. Thank you.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. But I'm now annoyed with myself (and the internet) for having missed that he illustrated Shakespeare. That means not only was it an omission here but also in my Shakespeare illustrators' video. Grrr....
What brilliant art.
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Narrator has a wonderful voice.
Aw shucks. Thanks a lot - funny thing, but it just sounds like a grumpy old Mancunian to me.
My computer went on the Fritz. I'm working from a laptop, but at least I can catch up with my favorite TH-camr.
Hello again and sorry to hear about your malfunction. I hope it can be fixed and enhance your viewing pleasure accordingly.
What my little world needs, is Don Camillo read in this voice, for when I'm shooting from the hip at the ghosts in the fog.
Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. I must confess I've never read it and maybe it's time I did.
@@petebeard - when I heard that BBC R4 were serialising it, I was made up, & then I heard it & it was everything it ought not to have been. They're gentle & subtle & quite 'village' in a universal way, people-watching & observing characters. Cheers.
That was a very short break -- MUCH obliged!!
Yes - short but great. Spain's Costa del Sol never disappoints. But it's good to be back to the channel.
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Hello again and I'm pleased you appreciate his wonderful images.
I have Tales of Edgar Allan Poe with his wood engravings 1944. They are terrifyingly wonderful!
Hello and I must say that of all his wood engraved work that's by far my favourite. I can't begin to imagine the skill and patience needed to create images that way.
Wonderful
Thanks a lot.
I remember "The Jungle Book" and, later "Jane Eyre" (purchased secondhand with a precious bit of Birthday Money--I didn't have enough to get his Wuthering Heights as well, though I later acquired it). He must have still been very active then, but because of the intricate style I assumed he was an artist of the more distant past.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. You're right about those wood engravings - they don't look 20th century at all.
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Just a slight correction - in the video you credit both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights was written by Emily, but Jane Eyre was written by her sister, Charlotte.
Hello and thanks for that. Not the first time - or last - I've been known to make incorrect assertions.
@@petebeard By the way, I have that particular two-book edition in my library, and the illustrations are truly remarkable. I'm now in search of other books he illustrated that I hadn't heard of - and I thank you for that information!
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My name is Lucia Cristina Eichenberg. I would like to find my lost family. My father was Ernest August Eichenberg Krug.
Hello and I wish you luck with your search.
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Thank you very much
Hello again and thanks for the appreciation.