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    Title

  • Albert and Elsa Einstein at the home of the Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting; November 13, 1922

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1922

  • Place of Publication

    Shanghai (China)

  • Summary

    Albert and Elsa Einstein at the Shanghai home of Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting; with Shanghai University President Yu Youren; former Beijing University professor Zhang Junmai; the Einsteins' Japanese hosts Mr. and Mrs. Inagaki; and Einstein's colleague Mr. Pfister and his wife (and daughter?).

    Dedication: Freundlichste Erinnerung an Herrn Prof. Einstein und seine Frau Gemahlin. I-Jing Wang, Shanghai, China

  • Depicted

    Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Einstein, Elsa, 1876-1936; I-Jung, Wang; Wang, Yiting, 1867-1938; Youren, Yu, 1879-1964; Junmai, Zhang, 1886-1969

  • Subject

    Portraits, Groups

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

"The picture was taken on November 13, 1922 at the residence of the famous Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting (1867-1938) in Shanghai. Chinese, German and Japanese scholars and celebrities attended the banquet in honor of the Einsteins. Among those seen on the photograph is the president of Shanghai University, Yu Youren (1879-1964) and former Beijing University professor Zhang Junmai (1886-1969), the painter, Einstein's Japanese hosts Mr. and Mrs.Inagaki, Mr. and Mrs. Pfister (he a German colleague of Einstein's), and a German speaking Chinese couple with a pretty 10 years old girl whose declamations of German and Chinese poems Einstein much enjoyed." (from AE's diary, November 14. 1922).

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Citation

Albert and Elsa Einstein at the home of the Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting; November 13, 1922, Leo Baeck Institute, F 13759.