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[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, half-length portrait, standing, conducting, left profile] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, half-length portrait, standing, conducting, left profile] — historic print
[Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, half-length portrait, standing, conducting, left profile]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Richard Wagner appears here in a half-length view, standing and conducting, shown in left profile, a pose that captures the physical energy he brought to the podium. The print is dated to about 1911, roughly three decades after Wagner's death in 1883, which places it in the years when his operas were being revived and debated across Europe and America. Wagner was both a composer and the author of his own librettos, and by the early twentieth century his stage works had become touchstones for audiences and critics alike. Images like this one helped circulate his likeness to a public that knew his music more often than his face.

Medium1 print.
Notesc1911.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,091 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121456

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