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    Title

  • Autographed portrait of Rabindranath Tagore

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white. ; 20 x 27 centimeters

  • Date

    1922

  • Place of Publication

    [Paris]

  • Summary

    Handwritten dedication: To Prof. Albert Einstein In rememberance of the friendship and time spent in his house" from Rabindranath Tagore.

  • Depicted

    Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941

  • Subject

    Authors; Nobel Prize winners; Poets; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Portraits

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The Bengali author, poet, philosopher, composer, and painter Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861. He first published his poems at age 16, and he eventually reformed Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art. He also was a humanist, universalist, and fierce anti-nationalist, promoting India’s independence from Britain. In 1913, Tagore was the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rabindranath Tagore died in Calcutta in 1941.

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Autographed portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5334C.