Bidspirit auction | Kauer - Beethoven life mask

Kauer - Beethoven life mask - Music. - Kauer, Willy (Vienna 1898 - 1976). Life mask of Beethoven. Bronzed plaster cast, circa 1950. Inside with black wax seal 'Atelier Dokumentar Plastik, Vienna, Copyright by Willy Kauer'. 21 x 17 x 11 cm. Kauer used a plaster casting method to produce medical masks and opened a specialized studio for portrait masks, facial prostheses, and death masks in 1938. - Copy of the life mask of Ludwig van Beethoven (composer, 1770-1827) taken by Franz Klein, 1812.