Portrait of Heinrich Eisemann.

Dark-haired, bearded man in profile facing left. Signed lower right. Titled on back.Struck was a master of etching and book illustration. He taught the art of printmaking to Marc Chagall, Max Liebermann and Arno Nadel and his monograph on the art of etching is a classic in the field. Struck was both an Orthodox Jew and a Zionist, however, his outlook on the world was decidedly cosmopolitan. This is also evident in his countless portraits, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Sigmund Freud, and impressions from his wide travels. While on service in the German Army during WW 1 he came into contact with the Jewish Communities of Galicia and Lithuania. During this time he created a series of sketches in Eastern Europe, which he lated turned into a book together with Arnold Zweig, titled "The Face of East European Jewry". In 1923 he emigrated to Palestine, where he was among the Bezalel School in Jerusalem.The antiquarian bookseller Heinrich Eisemann was born in 1890 in Frankfurt / Main, where in 1921 he founded a prestigious rare book company specializing in medieval manuscripts. He was forced by the Nazis to close his shop, to abandon his antiquarian bookshop and to leave the country, but he reestablished his antiquarian book business in London. Eisemann died in 1972 in London.digitizedDigital imag