Bidspirit auction | JANNINGS EMIL: (1884-1950)

JANNINGS EMIL: (1884-1950) - JANNINGS EMIL: (1884-1950) Swiss-born German actor, the first Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1927/28 for his roles as August Schilling in The Way of All Flesh and General Dolgorucki and Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in The Last Command . Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph, the image depicting Jannings standing in a half-length pose, in costume as pioneering microbiologist Robert Koch, at the side of an autopsy table upon which lies a female body, in a scene from the German Nazi propaganda film Robert Koch (1939). Published by Ross. Signed ( ´E. Jannings´ ) by the actor in bold black fountain pen ink to the base of the image. Some traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG