Gandhi, Great Soul

 

Fritz Eichenberg

  1901 - 1990 (biography)

1942  

woodengraving 

7 1/2 x 5 9/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

100 

pencil titled and annotated "ed. 100" in lower left 

full pge illustration on page 75 in "Fritz Eichenberg: Works of Mercy" edited by Robert Ellsberg’s book Fritz Eichenberg: Works of Mercy. 

ivory Basingwerk Parchment wove 

published 

 

FE116 

$400.00 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, India. He was an Indian lawyer, politician, and social activist who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule in India. Gandhi is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest to achieve political and social protest. To the millions of fellow Indians, Gandhi was the Mahatma or "Great Soul." Gandhi was the catalyst of three of the major revolutions of the 20th century: the movements against colonialism, racism, and violence. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in Delhi.