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Silhouette of Albert Einstein familly

Albert Einstein (silhouettist)
URL
https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/1345
Contributor
Albert Einstein (silhouettist)
Identifier
EB 219
Subject
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Einstein, Elsa, 1876-1936
Einstein, Ilse
Einstein, Margot
Date
1919
Type
Image
Format
B&W
Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection
Photograph collection - Einstein-- EB Series-barn collection\29-EB-AE art and iconography-regular sized
Rights
Permission to use this image must be requested from the Institute's Archives. Please contact archives@ias.edu.
Description
Reproduction of a silhouette made by Albert Einstein depicting himself, his second wife, Elsa, and Elsa's two daughters, Ilse and Margot, whom Albert adopted. Albert and Elsa were married the same year Einstein made this piece: 1919. Albert's handwritten notations on this piece include initials for each person under their silhouetted figure, Einstein's initials in the lower right, and a poem in the upper right. The text of the poem and a word next to Einstein's initials are not entirely legible. The text in German frakturs beneath the silhouette reads: Peterchens Mondfahrt, which is the title of a German children's classic, Peterkin's Journey to the Moon. One source says that the silhouette was glued to the title page of a copy of that book, which was given as a Christmas present to a child of friends of the Einstein family.
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