Handsome unsigned 14.5 x 17 etching of Albert Einstein depicted in three-quarter bust profile, his head slightly tilted to the left, by Swiss artist John Konstantin Hansegger. In fine condition.
John Konstantin Hansegger (1908–1989) founded the Galerie des Eaux Vives in Zurich in 1942 and was a member of the artists' group Allianz. Among the notable figures the artist portrayed were Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein. After he was invited to a solo exhibition at the Princeton University Museum in 1953, where he painted Albert Einstein from life, he decided to stay in America. Hansegger said that the sessions with Einstein were the most memorable of his career. Hansegger and Einstein conversed in their Swiss German dialect.
