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拍品 48Albert Einstein letters to Antonia Stern
The following four letters are written to Antonia Stern (1891-1961) the youngest daughter of German historian Alfred Stern (1846-1936). Einstein became close with the Stern family while he was studying in Zurich between 1896 and 1900. The young Antonia was a gifted violinist who often played with Einstein when he visited the Stern household. Antonia Stern and Albert Einstein are believed to have had a brief affair in the spring of 1933 at the Belgian seaside town of De Haan/Le Coq and maintained an intermittent correspondence after he departed for the United States. Antonia, by then living in Paris, soon became romantically involved with the communist Hans Beimler who was killed in Spanish Civil War in December 1936. (She would find herself targeted by Stalin for her accusations that her former lover may have been killed by his own comrades.) Stern was interned during the German occupation of France but managed to escape deportation and survive the war. An additional letter from Einstein to Emma Darmstadt (lot 52), Antonia's older sister, is also offered here. (Neue Zuricher Zeitung, 9 April 2018; Norbert Schmitz, Alfred Stern. Ph.D. Diss., Tromsø University, 2008.)
The following four letters are written to Antonia Stern (1891-1961) the youngest daughter of German historian Alfred Stern (1846-1936). Einstein became close with the Stern family while he was studying in Zurich between 1896 and 1900. The young Antonia was a gifted violinist who often played with Einstein when he visited the Stern household. Antonia Stern and Albert Einstein are believed to have had a brief affair in the spring of 1933 at the Belgian seaside town of De Haan/Le Coq and maintained an intermittent correspondence after he departed for the United States. Antonia, by then living in Paris, soon became romantically involved with the communist Hans Beimler who was killed in Spanish Civil War in December 1936. (She would find herself targeted by Stalin for her accusations that her former lover may have been killed by his own comrades.) Stern was interned during the German occupation of France but managed to escape deportation and survive the war. An additional letter from Einstein to Emma Darmstadt (lot 52), Antonia's older sister, is also offered here. (Neue Zuricher Zeitung, 9 April 2018; Norbert Schmitz, Alfred Stern. Ph.D. Diss., Tromsø University, 2008.)
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Antonia Stern, Oxford, 12 June 1933.
已结束2019年6月12日
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