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.
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)