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World War II-dated ANS signed “A. Einstein,” untranslated, penned on the second integral page of a handwritten letter sent by Einstein’s stepdaughter, Margot, to her art teacher Elsa Schmid, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.5 x 5.5, December 27, 1943. In fine condition, with a vertical fold to the signed page.
Elsa Schmid (1897-1970) was an accomplished German artist of many mediums, best known for her mosaic and glass work. In her youth, she spent many summers at an artists' colony in the Italian hill town of Anticoli Corrado, learning mosaics, painting, and art history. After immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, Schmid’s experimental mosaic technique, laying stones in the sand ground face-up, caught the attention of the art world and beyond.
In the 1940s, she began teaching the craft to Albert Einstein’s stepdaughter, Margot, and soon became close friends with the famed physicist. In a letter thanking Schmid for a portrait she created of him in 1952, Einstein praised her artistic skill: ‘You were able to capture my innermost spirit.’ Schmid’s work is held in several prominent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge.
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