Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary by Max Pollak

Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary by Max Pollak

Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary

Max Pollak

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Title

Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1920  
Technique
etching and color aquatint 
Image Size
17 5/8 x 9" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
6/120; only 15 impressions pulled 
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned, lower left; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet edge; annotated "printed a. 15" (about 15 impressions), lower sheet edge 
Reference
 
Paper
cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23993 
Price
$375.00 
Description

Austrian soprano singer and actress Fritzi Massary was born Friederike Massaryk in Vienna on March 31, 1882. She would become a leading singer in the opera houses of Berlin and Vienna in the 1910s and performed for the soldiers of the Imperial Army of occupied Belgium during World War I. She worked with famed composer Oscar Straus in the early 1920s, and with Noel Coward in his musical Operette in 1938.

Of Jewish extraction, she left Germany on the eve of World War II, despite her family's conversion to the Protestant religion in 1903. Traveling to US by way of London, she settled in Los Angeles where she remained until her death on January 30, 1969.

 
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