From the late 1940s Eisler travelled and showed extensively across Europe. Notable events included Otto Klemperer’s request for set and costume designs for Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, 1962; award of the Austrian Staatspreis for painting and major shows at the Vienna Secession and at Weinmüller’s, Munich, 1965; election as president of the Secession in 1968 (until 1972); publication in 1970 of a monograph by Otto Breicha on Eisler’s works, with a solo show at the Secession; award of the Prize of the City of Vienna, 1971; of the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1974; and the Klimt Award of the Vienna Secession in 1976; followed by a retrospective in Graz in 1977. In 1979 Edition Tusch published a portfolio of Eisler’s etchings, entitled Imaginary Portraits – 14 Poets, the year he illustrated Dashiell Hammett’s detective stories. Eisler participated in the Venice Biennale in 1982. Eisler’s teaching included International Summer Academy in Salzburg, 1981–2–4, and the University of New Mexico, 1983–5. His later exhibitions included Landscape of Exile, 1988, at Manchester City Art Gallery, evocative views of the city.