Josef Lewinsky 1835-1907

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Wikipedia entry for Josef Lewinsky

JOSEF LEWINSKY, the famous actor and portrayer of character in the Hofburg Theatre, was born on September 20, 1835, in Vienna, and died there on February 27, 1907. Lewinsky was engaged for the Burg Theatre by Laube in 1858, and may be regarded as the teacher of the younger generation of actors there, through the influence of his personality and his art; his greatest pupil was Josef Kainz. The death mask was taken by the sculptor Khuen 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.