The painter Eric Isenburger was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1902. He and Jula Elenbogen married in 1927. They lived in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and Nice before emigrating to the United States in 1941. In all circumstances Eric Isenburger produced extraordinary works. (http://www.isenburgerart.org/) ...born on May 17, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany, into a wealthy banking family. He was the younger of two sons. His memories of childhood included the time when he had measles and the doctor, fearing that the eyes might be damaged, ordered all Eric’s drawing paraphernalia to be put away out of reach. Eric resorted to making drawings on a roll of toilet paper, using the nurse’s stub of a pencil. He also recalled that once his mother urged him to invite a school mate home to play. They drank a cup of chocolate, but the boy refused the beautiful cake, saying “It’s Jewish cake.” In school Eric played the violin, but his greatest interest and activity was always drawing. Regarding family life he remembered that during World War I, a time of deprivation even for the well-to-do, his father would lock his own bread ration in the safe in his study, but Eric’s brother Herbert sometimes appropriated Eric’s loaf for himself. However, years later, in 1941, it was Herbert who paid for passage to the United States for Eric and his wife Jula. The family wished both sons to grow up to manage and expand their banking interests, but Eric was very determined to study art. He enrolled in a Frankfurt art school and became the student of Franz Karl Delavilla. When a patron requested Delavilla to paint several individual portraits of himself and other family members, Delavilla replied that he did not have time for this project, but said “There is a student, Eric Isenburger, who can do an even better job than I can!” Atelier Barcelona. ca 1925Eric undertook the commission, to the satisfaction of all. When he finished the art... Continued at http://www.isenburgerart.org/bio/ undefined

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