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Eugenio Fischgrund specialized in publishing books, postcards, Christmas cards, folders and prints on Mexican fine arts, crafts and folklore. His editorial firm, located at Isabel La Catolica Num. 30-205 in Mexico City, sold them in book and department stores, stationers, museums and hotels throughout the Republic.
Fischgrund reproduced the work of various artists on postcards from the 1930s into the 1960s:
1. Murals and frescoes by prominent artists Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and Alfaro Siqueiros. The photographs of art work by these and other artists were printed on heavy rag paper stock that gave the images the look of canvas in soft, rich color tones. Later printings were done on slick white paper stock.
Orozco, La Vida; Rivera, Noche de los Pobres; Siqueiros, Sacrificio por la Libertad
2. Popular arts and state pictorials by Miguel Gomez Medina. Besides the three regional crafts shown below, the postcard series also includes hand blown glass, hand carved leather, hand made silver, Oaxacan sarapes, pottery of Tlaquepaque, Uruapan lacquer and Yucatan embroideries.
Row One, left to right: Toluca Baskets; Olinala Lacquer; Puebla Talavera Pottery
Row Two, left to right: The States of Baja California, Sonora and Nuevo Leon
3. Amate paintings in a Mexican art series entitled "Coleccion Primitiva "Naif". The series includes paintings by anonymous artists on paper made of tree bark:
4. Illustrations by Miguel Gomez Medina, with descriptions by Ruth Poyo, of regional folk dances:
Row One, left to right: Venadito (NW MX); Huapango (Veracruz); Jarabe (Jalisco); Viejitos (Michoacan)
Row Two, left to right: Jarana (Yucatan); Volador (Papantla); Zandunga (Oaxaca); Quetzales (Puebla)
5. Watercolors by Charles X. Carlson, F. Lugo and Rafael Martinez. A few examples are shown in rows one, two and three respectively:
Carlson (left to right): Zacatenco, Atzcapotzalco and Ixtapalapa
F. Lugo (left to right): Cuernavaca, Taxco, San Angel and Xochimilco
Martinez (left to right): Tijuana, Chapultepec and Monterrey
