Harry Baur

Lot n° 310
119,5cmx159cm
Harry Baur (1880-1943) was one of the giants of the French cinema, and this is a superb character study of the man, who championed powerful characters, both fictional and historical, in films between the wars. He portrayed Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables” (1934); Emperor Rudolph II in “Le Golem” (1936); Beethoven in “Un Grand Amour de Beethoven” (1936); Rasputin in “La Tragedie Imperiale” (1938); and he was both “Rothschild” (1934) and “Volpone” (1939). During the Nazi occupation, the German authorities discovered that Baur’s wife was Jewish and they promptly arrested her; Baur refused to comply and so he, too, was taken and tortured as a suspected Allied agent. He died, days later, from internal bleeding as a result of the torture.

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