Portrait of Albert Einstein. Circa 1917. (Signed by Einstein and the artist).
Berlin: Circa 1917. Etching on Old Japanese Paper. 30 x 23 cm. on sheet size 40 x 32 cm.
Light foxing and folds in the margins.
Signed in pencil by Büttner lower right and by Einstein lower left.
Indistinct pencil annotations above Einstein’s’ signature.
Provenance: A Berkeley academic family.
Porträt von Albert Einstein. Radierung auf Bütten. Rechts unten von Erich Büttner, links unten von Albert Einstein signiert.
At the beginning of the years Einstein suffers from various illnesses (among other things from a liver disease and a stomach ulcer). His cousin Elsa takes care of him. It will last several years until he recovers completely. He writes a work on cosmology with the cosmologic term which shall guarantee a limited universe. He will refer to this cosmologic term later as his “biggest idiocy”. He takes over the management of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics on October 1. Item #51-1799
Price: $25,000.00