Harvey Littleton has written of Eisch 's paintings and drawings that " Erwin ... has said that the real landscape no longer exists in art , no more than the classic figure ; and so he creates his own vision of the world of the spirit and new relationships of body forms . " < ! -- Deleted image removed : Eisch first tried his hand at vitreography ( printmaking from glass plates ) during a visit to Harvey Littleton ’s studio in 1981 . Littleton had begun to explore the possibilities of intaglio printmaking from glass matrices in Wisconsin in 1976 ; in 1981 , after hiring a printer to assist him , Littleton began to invite artist colleagues to experiment in vitreography . Erwin Eisch was one of the first artists invited to engage in printmaking at Littleton Studios . Eisch brought his background in glass engraving to bear on the vitreograph plate . He abraded and cut into the glass surface , which was then inked and printed onto paper under pressure in an etching press . He produced six intaglio prints in four days during that visit . Over the following 26 years Littleton Studios published 64 prints by Eisch , including a 10-print portfolio titled " Kristallnacht : Night of Crystal Death . " According to Eisch , he created the portfolio as a means " to relieve some of the clinging shame that weighs down upon us Germans , and to bring courage to all those who oppose hate and violence and the destruction of the environment , today and forever . " Using a palette of primarily red and black ink , Eisch aimed to show in the artworks " the brutality and stupidity " of the November 1938 pogrom in Nazi Germany that foreshadowed the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Erwin Eisch