Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary by Max Pollak
Singers and Actors: Fritzi Massary
Max Pollak
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.