The portrait was restored in 2008/9, by Ghiora Elon, head of the Israel Museum
painting conservation laboratory.
The frame was restored by Alice Dias
Goldschmidt and Michal Blankett of
Studio Oro and by
Robert Cohen of
Antique.
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Before restoration | After restoration |
Photographed by: Ghiora Elon (portrait restorator),
Jerusalem
© 2009, All rights reserved.
The Albert Einstein Portrait @ The Hebrew University Curatorship website
Hangs on the wall above the entrance to the main reading hall of the Mathematics and Computer Science Library.
Photographed by: Douglas Guthrie, Jerusalem
© 2008, All rights reserved.
Until 1948, the picture was on display in the Philip Wattenburg Building (see picture).
Other photographs:
- Main reading hall
- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
- Bust / Sir Jacob Epstein
- The mathematics library (1945): Einstein Institute of Mathematics (Philip Wattenburg Building, Mount Scopus)