Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Autographs Actresses - Letter G in Rio de Janeiro

in Rio de Janeiro

English actor (1863-1944)

Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss (II)

Signature on album page of the German soprano (1876-1947)

shown as Nurabad in Bizet's Pecheurs de Perles at La Scala

Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Autographs Actresses - Letter G in Rio de JaneiroAustrian soprano (1878 1942) of Jewish origin, whose career developed during the early 1900s, then became a concert singer and teacher before her tragic murder during the Nazi Holocaust at a concentration camp in Belorussia near Minsk in 1942. Signed postcard photograph, shown in role, dated in Vienna in 1905. Her real handwritten signature is at the top of the photo, with an additional printed signature on the bottom right. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5