Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Autographs Singers Lot dated in Vienna in 1930

dated in Vienna in 1930

Her last name is also spelled Kruszelnicka

American tenor (b

great grandnephew of the composer Gioachino Rossini

published by Gus Edwards Music Co

Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Autographs Singers Lot dated in Vienna in 1930Austrian soprano (1878 1942) of Jewish origin, whose career developed during the early 1900s, then became a concert singer and teacher before her tragic murder during the Nazi Holocaust at a concentration camp in Belorussia near Minsk in 1942. Signed postcard photograph, shown in role, dated in Vienna in 1905. Her real handwritten signature is at the top of the photo, with an additional printed signature on the bottom right. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5