Scarce vintage 3.5 x 5.5-inch sepia-tone postcard portrait, boldly signed in black fountain pen around 1925. In fine condition for its age, with minor surface scuffs. Veteran Austrian stage, and silent and early talkie screen star Werner Krauss specialized in playing complex, obsessive and tortured characters. The peerless villain actor of the German expressionist genre was unforgettable in the title role of the horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920); as Jack-the-Ripper and Spring-heeled Jack in Waxworks (1924); and as the mephistophelean Scapinelli in The Man Who Cheated Life (1926).

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