Berg, Alban

c.21 x 16cms, in black ink, with the stamp ("M. Raschig's Handarchiv"), annotated by Marianne Raschig on verso; together with a photographic negative of the signed hand-print in brown, [Berlin], 14 December 1925

Strauss, Richard. Print of Strauss's right hand, signed and dated ("RichardStrauss Berlin, 21.4.25"), c.21 x 16.5cm, in black ink, with the palmist's stamp ("M. Raschig's Handarchiv"), circumscribed in pencil, Berlin, 21 April 1925, remains of clay around the image, small tears to edges; together with a negative photographic print from another right hand-print of Strauss

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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These hand prints were taken by the palmist Marianne Raschig and the brown photographic negatives were used by her in her book, Hand und Persönlichkeit. Einführung in das System der Handlehre, (1931). The hand-print of Berg was taken in Berlin on the day of the première of Wozzeck. See Raschig's plates 61 and  69b