Lot 391: BERG, ALBAN

HAND-PRINT OF BERG'S RIGHT HAND, SIGNED AND DATED BY HIM ("ALBANBERG 14./12.25") 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

A remarkable and vivid item. This hand-print was taken in Berlin on the day of the première of Wozzeck. It was taken by the palmist Marianne Raschig and the brown photographic negative was used by her in her book Hand und Persönlichkeit. Einführung in das System der Handlehre, (1931), plate 69b.