Bidspirit auction | Kauer - Bruckner's death mask

Kauer - Bruckner's death mask - Music. - Kauer, Willy (Vienna 1898 - 1976). Death mask of Bruckner. Bronzed plaster cast, circa 1950. Inside with red wax seal 'Atelier Dokumentar Plastik, Vienna, Copyright by Willy Kauer'. 25 x 15 x 12.5 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. - Probably a copy of the death mask of Joseph Anton Bruckner (composer, 1824-1896). - Small chip on the right eyebrow.