Josef Kainz 1858-1910

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Wikipedia entry for Josef Kainz (translated from German)

JOSEF KAINZ.–The finished art of this great and memorable actor of classic parts is still fresh in the minds of a generation now past middle life. He was born on January 2, 1858, at Wieselburg in Hungary, and died of cancer on September 20, 1910, in Vienna. The death mask was moulded by the Viennese actor, Otto Tressler, and is in the Municipal Collections in the Vienna Town Hall.

JOSEF KAINZ.–The finished art of this great and memorable actor of classic parts is still fresh in the minds of a generation now past middle life. He was born on January 2, 1858, at Wieselburg in Hungary, and died of cancer on September 20, 1910, in Vienna. The death mask was moulded by the Viennese actor, Otto Tressler, and is in the Municipal Collections in the Vienna Town Hall.

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.

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