Wagner, Richard, German composer (1813-1883). Portrait photograph (albumen print) with autogr. dedication and signature on reverse.

N. p., app. 1876.

138:101 mm (portrait) on cardboard.

€ 8,500.00

Dedicated to Carl Brandt, a close collaborator of Wagner at Bayreuth: "Lieber Brandt | wenn wir erst zum | letzten Brand | gekommen sein werden, | wollen wir Lachnerin | einen Hahn | schlachten | Dieses gelobend bin ich | Ihr | dankbarer Richard Wagner".

From the studio of Fritz Luckhardt.

Mentioned in Wagner, Letters (A 673) and in an auction catalogue of Leo Liepmannsohn (cat. 63, no. 193).

Somewhat spotty; script somewhat faded.

Hermann Kaiser: Der Bühnenmeister Carl Brandt und Richard Wagner. Kunst der Szene in Darmstadt und Bayreuth. Darmstadt, Eduard Roether Verlag, 1968.

Stock Code: BN#44548 Tags: ,

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