Felix Albrecht HartaDeutschland, 1884–1967

Lea Seidl - Silver Dancer

1924 · Painting · 110 × 90.2 cm

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This is a portrait of the Austrian actress and singer Lea Seidl, born in Vienna in 1895. Her birth name was Caroline Mayrseidl. She made her stage debut in her home city in 1917 as Janku in Franz Lehar's operetta Rastelbinder, or, The Tinker. She appeared in Zurich in 1919-1920 and was in Berlin in the 1920s, where, in 1928, she appeared in revue and recorded: ‘Ich Bin die Marie von Der Haller Revue’ with the Dajos Dajos Béla dance band. She emigrated to London in 1930, making her West End debut in the title role of Franz Lehar’s Fredericaat the Palace Theatre and recording two of her songs in the show ‘Why Did You Kiss My Heart Awake?’ and ‘I Love Him So’ with the Palace Orchestra on a Columbia label 78rpm record.

In 1931 she took over from Camilla Spiro as Josepha Vogelhuber, the proprietress of The White Horse Inn in the original London production of the hugely successful operetta The White Horse Inn at the Coliseum Theatre, and was featured in that role on the cover of the January 1932 edition of Theatre World. She starred as Catherine the Great in the 1949 production of The Czarina at the Alhambra, Glasgow, and appeared in television and film, playing roles including Fraulein Schneider in I Am a Camera (1955), and Countess Rostov in War and Peace (1956). She became a British subject, dying in London in January 1987.

The portrait by the Hungarian born painter Felix Albrecht Harta (1884-1967) was exhibited in the March 1924 Collective Portrait Exhibition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, listed as 1924 WV717 Lea Seidl ‘Silberne Tanzerin’ (Silver Dancer).

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