Albert Einstein by  Sir Jacob Epstein

Albert Einstein 1933

Dimensions: object: 536 x 293 x 254 mm, 28 kg

Copyright: © The estate of Sir Jacob Epstein | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate

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The famous physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) fled Germany in 1933, and was in hiding in North Norfolk when Epstein made this portrait bust.' However, Einstein left to take up a professorship at Princeton before it was completed. Epstein later described Einstein’s ‘wild hair floating in the wind’ and wrote that ‘his glance contained a mixture of the humane, the humorous, and the profound. This was a combination that delighted me. He resembled the ageing Rembrandt’. The famous physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) fled Germany in 1933, and was in hiding in North Norfolk when Epstein made this portrait bust.' Gallery label, January 2024