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Title: Albert Einstein
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A19810656000

	Title
	Albert Einstein

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv966da9b0c-cba8-45d2-ab7e-28c9f10f6054

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Designer
	Paul Schulze

	Artist
	Roland Erlacher

	Manufacturer
	Stueben Glass Company

	Photographer
	Yousuf Karsh

	Medium
	Sculpture, Albert Einstein

	Dimensions
	3-D (Large flat square of glass with Einstein's face): 44.4 × 43.8 × 2.5cm, 14.1kg (1 ft. 5 1/2 in. × 1 ft. 5 1/4 in. × 1 in., 31lb.)

	Physical Description
	Large flat square of glass with an etching of Albert Einstein's face. Piece 15.

	Summary
	Within a mirrored box, framed in one of the Spacearium's dark, shining pylons, stands an assemblage of crystal geometric forms, dominated by the engraved portrait of Albert Einstein, which appears on a thin square block.

	Summary
	The box appears to reflect to infinity all of the forms within it -- the portrait, blocks, prisms, cubes, spheres, hemispheres; the forms, in turn, partially reflect each other. Thus the geometric forms join with and transform the portrait through simple phenomena of light and lens, as though to exemplify Einstein's words engraved on one of the crystal blocks: "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

	Country of Origin
	United States of America

	Credit Line
	Commissioned from Stueben Glass Company for the opening of the Albert Einstein Spacearium by the National Air and Space Museum.

	Inventory Number
	A19810656000

	Type
	ART-Sculpture

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