Born August 20, 1945, in post-war Bucarest, José Eisenberg comes from a long line of textile manufacturers.

[3] At age 13, he left school and held several jobs: newspaper deliveryman, poster maker, and handyman in workshops which still employed Renaissance art-making techniques.

[4] At age 21, José Eisenberg established his own fashion design studio and factory in Florence, Italy.

In 1972, Italy awarded him honorary citizenship for his immense contribution to the industrialisation of the Basilicata region.

[8] Though JE Contrex was able to successfully develop a functioning artificial eye, work had to be abandoned due to the slow processing speed of the era's computers.