Marvelous 19 x 23 lithograph of Albert Einstein by Expressionist artist Lou Albert-Lasard, showing the genius in a three-quarter pose with his head slightly tilted, signed the lower right corner in pencil, "Albert Einstein." The lithograph carries a facsimile signature inherent to the print, "A. Einstein, 28 April 1922," as well as the artist's monogram, "LAL." In fine condition.
Louise Albert-Lasard (1885–1969) was born in Metz as the daughter of a Frenchman and an American. From 1908 to 1914, she studied in Munich at the Academy and in Paris. She also studied under Fernand Léger, in whose studio she worked. During her years in Munich, she had close connections to the New Artists' Association, including the likes of Klee, Marc, and Kandinsky. Her most sensitive portraits emerged after 1922, created with minimal means (especially watercolor and lithography), of significant contemporaries—Einstein, Chagall, Cocteau, and Léger, for example. She created at least two portraits of the physicist, which were reproduced as lithographs. The portraits were made in April 1922, when both Einstein and the artist lived in Berlin.
In a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke of April 16, 1922, Albert-Lasard discussed the sitting (translated): 'I took a portrait of Albert Einstein, of which I am sending you a print, and of his daughter…Einstein and his wife were very kind to me. They even intend to organize an exhibition of my works at their home. How easy it is for those who have a name to operate within a larger circle! To avoid sinking, I am obliged to make use of all possible connections, sometimes it seems impure to me; what do you think?' (as quoted in Une Image De Lou by Nicole Schneegans, Editions Gallimard, 1996).
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