Fine original large silver print photograph of the distinguished Ukrainian-born American bass in profile

by the noted Hungarian-born photographer Laszlo Willinger 1909-1989 by Alexander Kipnis

$125 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

390 x 290 mm. Signed by the photographer in white ink at the lower left corner. Vienna, ca. 1935. Slightly worn, with slight curl to edges. In very good condition overall. Kipnis was a member of both the Berlin Staatsoper 1930–1935 and the Vienna Staatsoper 1935–1938 ; he became an American citizen in 1934. By then he had established himself everywhere as an outstanding Wagner and Mozart bass and a highly distinguished

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