They called him "the Einstein of Sex". The German doctor who went (quite literally) where no other had gone before in his research, founding the massive Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Sexology, just before the Nazis eclipsed bohemian Berlin and its costumed, sexually liberated splendour. His na
This week we honor Albert Einstein. Test your knowledge about the Nobel Prize winner against these ten facts.
This incredible candid photograph was taken in 1946 by Globe Photographer Paula Wright. Being offered for the first time as an enhanced colorized edition. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known by the general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory. This image is credited to Globe Photos. This is a limited edition fine art C-Print, hand numbered out of an edition of 125 with an accompanying certificate of authenticity. Both Print and Certificate have matching sequentially numbered tamper proof holographic seals.
They called him "the Einstein of Sex". The German doctor who went (quite literally) where no other had gone before in his research, founding the massive Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Sexology, just before the Nazis eclipsed bohemian Berlin and its costumed, sexually liberated splendour. His na
The more research I did on Francis Bacon, the more enthralled I became. Always on the lookout for troubled musicians whose drunken rhymes I could live by, I’d
Oil on canvas. Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born Yitzhok-Leib, or Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. He was born in Odessa to an Orthodox Jewish family. Leonid's father made an income by renting out a guest-house. The court-yard of the guest house first awakened Leonid's artistic imagination. He started to draw very early, but his family tried to discourage him, as they feared that his drawing would interfere with his studies. From 1881 to 1885, Leonid studied at the Moscow University, first at the Medical Department, then at the Department of Law. Eventually he decided to devote his life to art and entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from which he graduated in 1887. He returned to Russia, served the compulsory two years in the Imperial Russian Army and in 1889 started a career as a full-time painter. The start of his career was very successful. His first exhibited painting was bought by Pavel Tretyakov, the most important art sponsor in Russia of the time. He soon became a popular painter, a member of the so called Polenov circle, that included Valentin Serov, Isaac Levitan, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin. In 1889 he married the pianist Rosa Isidorovna Kaufman. The newlyweds settled in Moscow and in (1890) the first among the couple's four children was born — the famous author and poet Boris Pasternak. Leonid Pasternak was one of the first Russian painters who labeled himself an Impressionist. In Russia in the 1880s and 1890s such a proclamation was novel enough to draw attention to an artist. Leonid also was a member of the Peredvizhniki and Union of Russian Artists movements. He was a friend of Leo Tolstoy, for months lived in Yasnaya Polyana, and painted many portraits of the great writer, also illustrating his novels War and Peace and Resurrection. He was awarded a medal at the World Fair in Paris (1900) for his illustrations of Tolstoy's novels. Pasternak was elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905), and also taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1921 Pasternak needed an eye surgery, that was performed in Berlin. He traveled there with his wife and two daughters, leaving sons (Boris and Alexander) in Russia. After the surgery he decided not to return to Russia, remaining in Berlin until 1938 when he took refuge from the Nazis in Great Britain. He died in Oxford on 31 May 1945.
1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle class, gradually rediscovered prosperity and turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan city.
They called him "the Einstein of Sex". The German doctor who went (quite literally) where no other had gone before in his research, founding the massive Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Sexology, just before the Nazis eclipsed bohemian Berlin and its costumed, sexually liberated splendour. His na
Roam the bright lights, the backstage whispers, and the brittle political consensus of 1920s Berlin. This uniquely evocative book brings together illustrations from Robert Nippoldt and descriptive texts by Boris Pofalla into one vivid portrait of the people, places, and ideas of an effervescent metropolis in a transformative decade.
Germany; Berlin; children clinging at the tram - 1929
It's the 100th anniversary of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and a new book reveals little-known pictures of the great physicist.
HE must be one of the most recognisable scientists ever - Professor Albert Einstein. He is captured here however in Park Gardens, Glasgow, in June,…
Women enjoying cigars in a Berlin cafe, 1927. An excellent post about the lost lesbian bars of Weimar Berlin can be found here.
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A young woman working as a tram conductor, Berlin, circa 1920.
They called him "the Einstein of Sex". The German doctor who went (quite literally) where no other had gone before in his research, founding the massive Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or Sexology, just before the Nazis eclipsed bohemian Berlin and its costumed, sexually liberated splendour. His na
German Empire Free State Prussia - Brandenburg Provinz - Berlin New tram-stop.Passangers waiting of the tram. - Photographer: Phot. F. Gerlach- Published by: A.V. 7/21Vintage property of ullstein bild
