Painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach CdV Carte de Visite

Wilhelm von Kaulbach Carte de Visite

 

Authentic Wilhelm von Kaulbach CdV from app. 1860s. 66 x 107 mm. Moderate wear. Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805 – 874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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Antique Chinese Photo with German Missionaries in Zihawei

Antique Chinese Photo with German Fathers in Zihawei

 

Old Chinese photograph from 1902 depicting 2 German missionaries and Chinese students in the missionary Zihawei (子哈维) in Shanghai as they are busy with wood carving.

Explanations in German at reverse.

11,9 x 9,5 cm. Good condition.

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Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg Photo with Autograph, CoA

Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg Photo with Autograph, CoA

 

Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg Portrait Photo with Autograph, CoA

Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg Autograph: Portrait cabinet-photo, hand signed at reverse. Photo from the studio Zwickle in Wien. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Arnsburg,

Friedrich Ludwig, actor (1820-1891) started his career in 1839 in Bruenn. 1843 he became a member of the Riga theater-ensemble, later he performed in Koenigsberg and at the Hofburgtheater in Wien. 1853 he became „wirklicher Hofschauspieler“.

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Hermann Nothnagel CdV

Professor  Hermann Nothnagel  Carte de Visite

Hermann Nothnagel CdV by R. Lechner Wien. Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841 – 1905) was a German internist born Germany.

Nothnagel studied under Ludwig Traube (1818–1876) and Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) at the University of Berlin. From 1865 to 1868 he was an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832–1910). From 1882 until his death in 1905, he was a professor at the university clinic in Vienna. One of his better known students was Constantin von Economo (1876–1931). In 1879 he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. In collaboration with other physicians, Nothnagel published Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie.

In 1876 he described the irregular pulse associated with atrial fibrillation. At the time he referred to this discovery as "delirium cordis". The eponymous "Nothnagel's syndrome" is named after him. Authentic CdV in fine condition.

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Chinese CdV. Chinese Man in Western Dress.

Early, Chinese carte de visite with a portrait photo of a Chinese gentleman, wearing a western suit. He looks much like Sun Yatsen.

2,3 x 3,9 inches (58 x 100 mm). Fine condition.

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Emile Sauret Card de Visite. French Composer.

Émile Sauret CdV. Photo by Joseph Rziwanek in Wien.

Émile Sauret (22 May 1852, Dun-le-Roi, France - 12 February 1920, London) was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini's First Violin Concerto and the "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1894).

He began European tours at the age of eight. Sauret made his American debut in 1872. Liszt performed sonatas with him. In 1873, Sauret married Teresa Carreño (1853-1917), the Venezuelan pianist and composer.

Zhang Zuolin: Large Photo 1928. Very Scarce. 张作霖照片

Zhang Zuolin Photo. Portrait photo with Facsimile signature of this important politician and war lord.


Old photo from the 1930s in perfect shape: 9 x 11,5 inches. No creasing or tears.

Zhāng Zuòlín (张作霖 pinyin: Zhāng Zuòlín, Wade-Giles: Chang Tso-lin) (according to some accounts born in 1873 in Haicheng county in southern Fengtian province, assassinated on 4 June 1928 in Shenyang, although often 21 June is being cited as the official date of his death), nicknamed the "Old Marshal", "Rain Marshal" (or "Mukden Tiger", was one of the major warlords of China in the early 20th century. He was the warlord of Manchuria from 1916 to 1928, and at one time ruled an enormous area of north China.


After the disastrous defeat of 1922 Zhang had reorganized Fengtian Army, started a training program and had bought new equipment like mobile radios and machine guns. In the autumn of 1924 fighting broke out again in Central China and Zhang saw an opportunity to capture North China and Beijing and become head of the Central Government. While most other warlord armies fought along the Yangtze River, Zhang attacked North China. The Second Zhili-Fengtian War had begun. In a surprise move a Zhili commander, Feng Yuxiang, toppled Cao Kun and took control of Beijing.


He shared power with Zhang and both appointed the same Duan Qirui he had ousted in 1920. By August 1925 the Fengtian Army controlled four large provinces within the Great Wall (Zhili, where Beijing was located, but not Beijing itself, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui). One unit even marched as far south as the city of Shanghai. But the military situation was so unstable, that Sun Chuanfang, a Zhili clique warlord whose sphere of influence extended along the Yangzi, managed to push back the Fengtian Army again. By November Zhang held only a small corner of North China including a corridor connecting Beijing with Manchuria. Attacks on Beijing continued into the spring of 1926.
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