Signed photo by Josef Kainz from 1908. Excellent condition. Autograph was part of my father's collection, who started collecting signatures of world leaders, actors, musicians, and football players in 1961. During 50+ years, he owned ~20.000 autographs in 180 binders and boxes. Josef Gottfried Ignaz Kainz (2 January 1858 – 20 September 1910) was a male actor from Austria-Hungary. He was highly active in theatres in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire from 1873 to 1910. Revered as one of the greatest actors of the German-speaking theatre, the city of Vienna annually bestowed a theatre award for outstanding acting performance named after him, the Kainz Medal, from 1958 to 1999 (replaced by the Nestroy Theatre Award in 2000).