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    Artist

  • Ziffer, Moshé, 1902-1989

    • Title

  • Albert Einstein : Bust by Moshe Ziffer

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1930

  • Summary

    Dedicated to Margot Einstein. Autographed by Ziffer, M.

    Allegedly, Albert Einstein quipped: "Du bist ein(e) Ziffer und ich bin Ein-Stein; aber du arbeitest mit Stein und ich arbeite mit Ziffern". [You are a figure, and I am ‘a stone’; but you work in stone, and I work with figures].

  • Depicted

    Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Sculpture

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The artist and sculptor Moshe Ziffer was born in Premissel (Przemyśl, Poland) in 1902. He emigrated to Palestine in 1919 and then studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Moshe Ziffer died in Tel Aviv in 1989.

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Albert Einstein : Bust by Moshe Ziffer, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5349A.