Original inscribed photograph portrait of Emile Zola. Original albumen paper print on cardboard bearing the stamps of the Eugène Pirou studio, rue Royale, Paris.

Signed and inscribed by Emile Zola to Otto Eisenschitz: "à M. Otto Eisenschitz / cordialement / Emile Zola".




 

Otto Eisenschitz, a leading arts and culture journalist on numerous Viennese periodicals, playwright and director of the Josefstadt theater, was the author of numerous plays and novels. His translation work from Italian gave preference to contemporary naturalist authors such as Roberto Bracco, Guglielmo Ferrero, Antonio Fogazzaro, Marco Praga and Giovanni Verga. He lost his life in the Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp in 1942.