EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics ...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. An impressive, large signed 17.5 x 23 silkscreen print by Einstein, the image being a well-executed line portrait of the scientist by the artist Joseph Scharl, 1946. Signed (‘A. Einstein’) by Einstein with his name alone to the lower left corner and also bearing the facsimile signature and date of Scharl. Matted in white and framed and glazed in a modern frame to an overall size of 26 x 36. A highly attractive signed image, effective in its confident and bold lines. Rare and desirable in this form. About EX

Joseph Scharl (1896-1954) German-born American expressionist painter and graphic artist.

Labelled a ‘degenerate’ artist by the Nazi Party, Scharl found it impossible to work in Germany and his immigration to the United States in 1939 was sponsored by Einstein.

Scharl was not only supported financially by Albert Einstein, whom he had first met in Berlin in the 1920s, but also in the realisation of various exhibition projects. Scharl often visited Einstein, whom he painted several times, in Princeton and the two engaged in friendly correspondence from 1941 onwards. The years 1944-46, when the present portrait was created, marked the peak of Scharl’s fame in America.

When Scharl passed away in 1954, a few months before his friend’s own death, Einstein gave the eulogy at the artist’s funeral.