Erwin Finlay Freundlich (1885–1964)

by Ernest Mandler

• Date painted: 1938
• Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 83.5 cm
• Collection: University of St Andrews

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After finishing his thesis with Felix Klein at the University of Göttingen in 1910,Erwin Finlay Freundlich became assistant at the Observatory in Berlin, where he became associated with Einstein. During a solar eclipse expedition in 1914 to verify general relativity, World War I broke out and he was interned in Russia. After the war, he was engaged in construction of a solar observatory in Potsdam, the Einsteinturm =(Башня Эйнштейна (обсерватория на горе Телеграфенберг в Потсдаме, 1917 г. либо 1920—1921 гг.Эрих Мендельсон  - архитектор, )

and he was director of the Einstein-Institut.

In 1933 Hitler came to power and Freundlich was forced to leave Germany; he had a Jewish grandmother and his wife was Jewish. He was appointed professor at the University of Istanbul, which was reformed by Kemal Atatürk with the help of many German scholars.

Серия сообщений "Портреты великих в живописи":
Часть 1 - Иван Алексеевич Бунин (1870-1953) в Одессе в 1919 г.; портрет Евгения Иосифовича Буковецкого
Часть 2 - George Gershwin / by Arthur Kaufmann (1888 – 1971)
...
Часть 15 - Иоэль Энгель
Часть 16 - Лео Кениг (настоящее имя – Арье-Лейб Яффе
Часть 17 - Немецкий астроном Эрвин Финлей Фрейндлих
Часть 18 - Н.Г.Рубинштейн. Художник В.Н.Яковлев. 1946
Часть 19 - Остроухов Илья Семенович (1858–1929). Русский художник, коллекционер
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Часть 38 - Sir Henry Raeburn. Sir Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832. Novelist and poet 1822
Часть 39 - автор текста государственного Гимна США.
Часть 40 - Скульптура З.И. Азгура. не Михоэлс ли это?