WONG (Anna May, 1907-1961, First Chinese-American Actress)

Charming Vintage Postcard Photograph by Atelier Jacobi, Berlin, signed in English under the image which shows her seated, cross legged, wearing a Chinese style outfit, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date,

Wong Liu Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress, considered the first Chinese-American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese-American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.
Atelier Jacobi was a Berlin film studio, which made numerous film star photos for Ross Verlag postcards. The Jacobi family had the most famous portrait-photography business in Germany, with studios in Thorn, Poznan, and Berlin. The main photographer of the studio during the late 1920s and early 1930s was Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990) who was the fourth generation of the photographer family Jacobi. She captured the heady spirit of the Weimar Republic, particularly the intellectual and artistic elite who lived in Berlin or passed through it, before Lotte fled the Nazis in 1935.

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Stock No:  43067      £375

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