Henry E. Salloch woodcuts

Collection — Box: Multi 06

Identifier: MS-0178

Staff Only

Scope and Contents Note

This collection includes fifteen woodblock prints by Henry Salloch. They were used as holiday cards by the couple and have handwritten notes on them. The scenes include Quaker Neck circa 1974; Touches, Burgundy (Saint Symphorien Church); San Gimignano, Tuscany (x2); Segovia, La Vara Cruz; Bleak Mesa, New Mexico; Morgnec Creek, MD; Gold Rush Country, California, 1951; Pecos Mission, New Mexico, 1959; East 31 Street, Manhattan; reeds; Taxco, Mexico; Lower East Pubnico, Nova Scotia, 1953; Sea Clift, Long Island, 1950; Stowe, Vermont; and Lobster Shack, Maine, 1954.

Dates

Creation: 1950-1970s

Access restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Publication rights

Copyright has not been assigned to Washington College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Washington College as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical Information

Henry Emil Salloch (1908-1985), an artist and graphic designer, was born December 31st in Berlin, Germany as Heinz Emil Sallcoh. He studied art at the Methesius University of Fine Art and Design in Kiel, Germany. In 1919, he began teaching art in Berlin. As Hitler’s power grew Salloch refused to join the Nazi Party and held inclusive events for Jewish pupils. His defiance brought him to the attention of the Gestapo and Salloch fled Germany, first to Cuba and then to the United States in 1937, settling in New York. Salloch met and married Erika (1918-2000), a Jewish woman who also fled the Nazis. Erika received her bachelor’s from Herbert Lehman College in 1964 and her Ph.D. from New York University. In 1969 she began teaching at Washington College as a professor of German in the Modern Languages Department. She retired in 1986 a year after Henry’s death in August of 1985. The couple had one son, Roger Salloch, who became a writer in France. Dr. Erika created The Henry Salloch Prize for Washington College students.