Lot 47
  • 47

[EINSTEIN, ALBERT]; FLEISCHMANN, TRUDE

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Photographic portrait of Albert Einstein by Trude Fleischmann, taken ca 1946, Einstein holding his beloved pipe in his right hand. 
Large silver gelatin print photograph (10½ x 13¼ in.), image mounted to card, signed in ink below image "Für Peter Foges. A. Einstein. 52.", and lower left in pencil "Trude Fleischmann. New York."

Condition

Some remnants of adhesive (used to mount photo to board) visible along left and upper edge; line of fading (to pale red) running diagonally over wrist and chest area.
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Catalogue Note

Although Einstein had given up smoking three years prior at the request of his Physician Dr. Rudolf Ehrmann, Einstein continued to carry a pipe as can be seen in the present photograph. The image is typical of Einstein later in life, informally dressed, hair long and slightly unkempt, pipe in hand. Trude Fleishmann was born in Vienna in 1895, and was forced to flee after the Anschluss of 1938. She eventually settled in New York where she set up a photography studio near Carnegie Hall, photographing celebrities and other luminaries, including Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Arturo Toscanini.