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Rare german photo book of the late 1920's featuring photographs of the death masks of famous individuals in chronological order with captions [name, date of birth with city and day of death with city], beginning with 3 ancient masks in gold, bronze and terracotta and Filippo Brunelleschi (d. 1446) and ending with Sun Yat-Sen (d. 1925).
Other important historical figures included are: Lorenzo del' Medici, Martin Luther, Heinrich IV. von Frankreich, Oliver Cromwell, Karl XII. von Schweden, Isaac Newton, Friedrich II. König von Preussen, Gottlieb Ephraim Lessing, Christoph Martin Wieland, Josef Haydn, Heinrich Pestalozzi, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Honore Gabriel Mirabeau Marquis von Riquetti, Königin Louise von Preußen, Francois Talma, Ludwig Devrient's, Napoleon I., Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Cuvier, Berthel Thorwaldsen, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Pierre-Jean de Beranger, Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Karl Philipp FÜrst zu Schwarzenberg, Helmuth v. Moltke, Albert Lortzing, Karl Maria v. Weber, Eduard v. Bauernfeld, Franz Grillparzer, Nikolaus Lenau, Eduard Morike, Prinz Ferdinand v. Preußen, Napoleon II., Adalbert Stifter, Moritz v. Schwind, Friedrich Hebbel, Frederic Chopin, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Gustave Flaubert, Fedor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Gottfried Keller, Adolf v. Menzel, Ferdinand Lassalle, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauß, Josef Victor v. Scheffel, Marie v. Ebner-Eschenbach, Leo Tolstoi, Bertha v. Suttner, Charlotte Wolter, Josef Kainz, Hugo Wolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Mahler, Detlev v. Liliencron, Richard Dehmel, Frank Wedekind and Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin.
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