Location: Thielska Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden
Link: www.thielska-galleriet.se
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.–The great philosopher and thinker fell a victim to insanity in 1889, and was released by death on August 25, 1900, at Weimar; he was fifty-six years of age.The original of the death mask is in the Nietzsche archives at Weimar in the possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche. As the owner could not bring herself to permit the reproduction of the mask in this book, we were obliged to be content with the bronze cast in the Berlin National Gallery. Photograph by Treue, Berlin.
Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.