Erich W. Eiland

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Erich W. Eiland , also Erich Eiland , (* 1889 in Zwickau ; † before 1955 probably in Dresden ) was a German graphic artist and landscape painter who published some of his works as artist postcards.

Life

After his school education and study trips to Sweden and Switzerland, Erich W. Eiland, who came from Zwickau, settled in Olbernhau in the Saxon Ore Mountains by 1916 at the latest , where he worked until at least 1919. In that year he corresponded with Walther Rathenau , among others , who let him know the following: I can assess how difficult it is for you to pursue such a civil profession and to live intellectual tasks at the same time; I can judge it because for 25 years I have been in the same position that sometimes made demands to the point of exhaustion [...] .

Immediately before 1923, Eiland von Olbernhau moved to the Saxon state capital Dresden , where he set up his studio as a painter at Glacisstraße 34 and later also a publisher of his own works there. One of his best-selling products, which were also sold in Czechoslovakia , was the two-part series of artist postcards published from 1923 based on his own original stone drawings with the title Soul of Homeland . The card folders each contained eight postcards with his drawings from the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains, which were thus widely distributed. Erich W. Eiland understood these cards as a silent greeting from a heart to people who feel one in the knowledge of the all-encompassing divine unity and its sublimity in the greatest as well as the smallest of all nature. In this spirit may they build bridges among seekers.

In the last address book from Dresden, which appeared before the end of the war in 1943/44, Erich Eiland is listed as the owner of the publishing house for German art at Glacisstrasse 34. His publishing house is not to be confused with the “radical ethnic” publishing house for German art by Bruno Tanzmann from Hellerau near Dresden, which existed at the same time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letters from Walther Rathenau , 2017, p. 167.
  2. ↑ Labeling of the cover pages of the map portfolios " Seele der Heimat" .
  3. ↑ Address book of the Gau and state capital Dresden , Freital-Radebeul [...] 1943/44, Dresden 1943, 262.
personal data
SURNAME Eiland, Erich W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Island, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH before 1955
Place of death uncertain: Dresden