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COLBORNE CHK0NICLE - Thursday. March 17th, 196£ I went out to interview a man named Heinrieh Eichner and fell in love with his entire family. Probably bebcause they are a family who do things together. Not only fun things, but Heinrieh and Edith, with their five children, work together as well. They live in a little brown house in one of Edmonton's new suburbs. In the summer there are tall sunflowers leaning heavily against the house and a small garden in the front yard that gives one an instantaneous impression a tiny bit of Europe has been transplanted to the prairie city. Eichner now teaches an art course as a member of the extension faculty of the University of Alberta but at one time he took any job he could find to keep his family fed and a roof over their heads. For five years he was employed at small johs or as an orderly in a hospital. He never lost faith in the future he could expect in this new land though he did have periods of deep depression and discouragement. Perhaps his greatest fortune is his wife. Warm and outgoing, it is evident from the moment one enters their studio home that she is not only mother, wife and artist, but his inspiration as well When I started out for their home I was merely bent on learning a little about the man who had created the figures in stone of the Zodiac that pave the entrance to Edmonton's beautiful Planitarium. Before I left the Eichner family I had been literally transported into their world of dreams. It was a whirlwind sort of an interview because I was in a constant state of trying to listen to the quiet philosophy of Heinrieh, who looks like a reproduction of our image of Jesus Christ, the many praises of their frietnd and mentor, Jan Moytle. and the happy enthusiasms of Edith, all in the broken accents of newly learned English. Interspersed with the conversation were trips to the kitchen to watch a blueherry dessert bubbling in the oven (baked in my honour), to enjoy the art work of all five children, especially the work .if Barbara who has inherited be- nd y mothi of i and RED CROSS IS ALWAYS THERE WITH YOUR HELP^-- busy themselves creating. It was when we reached the rockpile that my story began to jell. They looked like very ordinary rocks until Heinrieh wet them. Then I saw the wonderful colours he has obtained in his Zodiac figures. It took months to collect these stones. As a family they hunted in the area farm yards and fields, beside stream and roadside, for the treasures Heinrieh needed for his contracted masterpiece. They all worked at splitting and polishing the stones he chose from the pile. I wanted to understand his deeprooted belief that all humans are born with artistic talent "Many lose it when subjected to civiliation. There is a unity in composition and we give of our best if we can find our way back to childhood, for there is faith and innocence in most artistic expression," was one of his opinions. Trained Artists This interesting couple met 15 years ago at the Muenster School of Handicraft and Art. Edith Eichner is an accomplished sculptress as well as a painter and she has written and illustrated a winsome story for children. She has modelled and reproduced in concrete "Christ on the Cross" which hangs in a Catholic retreat house, and "Christ the Teacher" in bronze commissioned by Assumption Academy. When she is angry with her husband she paints him in yellow, but most of the time in blues, "because t h e spiritual light shines through". When I asked Heinrieh why his Planetarium mural was on the ground instead of a will, lie replied, "because people should know where they are walking. We seldom look down, that is why so many stumble." 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