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At the end of the war, Erlich returned to Königsberg. In 1920, he returned to art school. During his studies at the State Art School, Ehrich was hired by his senior professors to execute works for them. In 1929 Ehrich collaborated with his professor, Erich
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Ehrich became a popular sculpture instructor through open demonstrations at the city’s WPA adult school. Through this appointment, Ehrich produced public works, including the wooden sculpture of St. Andrew displayed at
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In Ehrich’s first one-man show in New York City in 1941, his work had “favorable notices from critics” and his work was “likened … Barlach”. This marks what would continue as the critical establishment of Ehrich’s “modest national reputation for his figurative sculpture under the considerable
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Around 1950, Ehrich introduced copper enameling as a new class at the MAG. In 1954 he created a large sunflower from individually enameled copper petals, the
University symbol, now mounted on the Hajm Gymnasium at the University.
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