Raschig, Marianne IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF OVER A THOUSAND HAND-PRINTS OF ACTORS, FILM DIRECTORS, POLITICIANS, OTHER PERSONALITIES AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, SIGNED BY THE SITTERS, COLLECTED BY RASCHIG BETWEEN THE 1870S AND 1930S 1) hand-prints of around 360 actors, producers, screen-writers etc, including many stars of the silent screen: Louise Brooks (both hands signed, with a photographic negative), Marlene Dietrich (left hand signed, in 1930), Fritz Lang (both hands signed in 1925, with a photographic negative), Leni Riefensthal (left hand signed in 1929, with the photographic negative), René Clair (both hands signed), Josef von Sternberg Douglas Fairbanks senior, Peter Lorre, Alfred Abel (Metropolis), Hans Albers, Gitta Alpár, Charlotte Ander, Albert Bassermann, Ernst Behmer, Hans Brausewetter, Erik Charelle, Mady Christians, Carl Clewing, Lil Dagover, Gustav Diessl, Wladimir Gaidarow, Lilian Harvey, Brigitte Helm, Trude Hesterberg, Hilde Hildebrand, Emil Jannings, Eugen Klöpfer, Leopoldine Konstantin, Werner Krauss, Franz Lederer, Theodor Loos, Alexander Moissi, Asta Nielsen, Max Pallenberg, Henny Porten, Fritz Rasp, Else Reval, Walter Slezak, Agnes Straus, Hermann Thimig, Paul Wegener Ellen Widmann, Leopold Jessner, Seymour Nebezahl, Friedrich Zelnik and others 2) c.50 German politicians, feminists and activists: Gustav Stresemann, Theodor Heuss Gertrud Bäumer, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Ranzau, Albert Grzesinski, Helene Lang, Paul Löbe, Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, Albert Südekum; together with forty dancers including Tamara Karsavina, Mary Wigman and The Tiller Girls (26), the boxers Max Schmeling and Hans Breitensträter, the chess-player Emanuel Lasker, the tennis-player Nelly Nappach, other sportsmen, entertainers, businessmen, and many others 3) c.300 mostly non-celebrities, including nurses, doctors, patients, children, and Titine, a chimpanzee at the Berlin Zoo (prints taken on 23 June 1928) c.1500 sets of hand-prints in all, most including separate prints for each hand, and many also containing photographic negatives used by Raschig for her 1931 book, some finished in pencil by Raschig (e.g. Dietrich's), together with around 150 photographs, c.100 half-tone photographic prints and 16 reduced-size photographs signed by the subjects in white ink (including by Graf Hermann Keyserling, Erna Morena, Elisabeth Grube, Arnolt Bronnen, E.H. Stinnes), and an undated 1-page manuscript fragment in Raschig's hand, describing and analysing some features of the hand, the hand-prints mostly in ring-bound folders, others loose in envelopes, Monte Carlo, Berlin and elsewhere, c.1871-1935, a few somewhat browned or creased, some fraying to edges
Raschig, Marianne IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF OVER A THOUSAND HAND-PRINTS OF ACTORS, FILM DIRECTORS, POLITICIANS, OTHER PERSONALITIES AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, SIGNED BY THE SITTERS, COLLECTED BY RASCHIG BETWEEN THE 1870S AND 1930S 1) hand-prints of around 360 actors, producers, screen-writers etc, including many stars of the silent screen: Louise Brooks (both hands signed, with a photographic negative), Marlene Dietrich (left hand signed, in 1930), Fritz Lang (both hands signed in 1925, with a photographic negative), Leni Riefensthal (left hand signed in 1929, with the photographic negative), René Clair (both hands signed), Josef von Sternberg Douglas Fairbanks senior, Peter Lorre, Alfred Abel (Metropolis), Hans Albers, Gitta Alpár, Charlotte Ander, Albert Bassermann, Ernst Behmer, Hans Brausewetter, Erik Charelle, Mady Christians, Carl Clewing, Lil Dagover, Gustav Diessl, Wladimir Gaidarow, Lilian Harvey, Brigitte Helm, Trude Hesterberg, Hilde Hildebrand, Emil Jannings, Eugen Klöpfer, Leopoldine Konstantin, Werner Krauss, Franz Lederer, Theodor Loos, Alexander Moissi, Asta Nielsen, Max Pallenberg, Henny Porten, Fritz Rasp, Else Reval, Walter Slezak, Agnes Straus, Hermann Thimig, Paul Wegener Ellen Widmann, Leopold Jessner, Seymour Nebezahl, Friedrich Zelnik and others 2) c.50 German politicians, feminists and activists: Gustav Stresemann, Theodor Heuss Gertrud Bäumer, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Ranzau, Albert Grzesinski, Helene Lang, Paul Löbe, Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, Albert Südekum; together with forty dancers including Tamara Karsavina, Mary Wigman and The Tiller Girls (26), the boxers Max Schmeling and Hans Breitensträter, the chess-player Emanuel Lasker, the tennis-player Nelly Nappach, other sportsmen, entertainers, businessmen, and many others 3) c.300 mostly non-celebrities, including nurses, doctors, patients, children, and Titine, a chimpanzee at the Berlin Zoo (prints taken on 23 June 1928) c.1500 sets of hand-prints in all, most including separate prints for each hand, and many also containing photographic negatives used by Raschig for her 1931 book, some finished in pencil by Raschig (e.g. Dietrich's), together with around 150 photographs, c.100 half-tone photographic prints and 16 reduced-size photographs signed by the subjects in white ink (including by Graf Hermann Keyserling, Erna Morena, Elisabeth Grube, Arnolt Bronnen, E.H. Stinnes), and an undated 1-page manuscript fragment in Raschig's hand, describing and analysing some features of the hand, the hand-prints mostly in ring-bound folders, others loose in envelopes, Monte Carlo, Berlin and elsewhere, c.1871-1935, a few somewhat browned or creased, some fraying to edges
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