Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2046200i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Lübeck (Postfach 272) : Nordische Kunstanstalt Ernst Schmidt & Co. ; [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 postcard : process print ; 14 x 8.8 cm

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Lettering

Siegmund Breitbart, Eisenkönig At 'Circus Busch' Berlin c.1920 (written in pencil, verso)

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Printed postcard of the circus strongman Sigmund 'Zishe' Breitbart (1883-1925), Polish born son of a Jewish blacksmith, vaudeville star in Europe and America, he was also a Jewish folk-hero billed in the 1920s as 'The Strongest Man in the World'. He instituted the first ever body-building correspondence course, toured the shtetls of his native Poland in triumph in 1925, and died prematurely that same year of blood poisoning due to hammering a nail into his leg. [This postcard] shows him in a Roman Centurion's helmet and is captioned with his nickname 'Eisenkonig' (The Iron King in German and Yiddish)."

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Wellcome Collection 2046200i

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