Kasimir, Luigi (eigentlich Alois Heinrich). – Aus Kopenhagen.

Luigi Kasimir (Pettau 1881 – 1962 Wien) studierte an der Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Wien. – Im unteren Bildrand typographisch bezeichnet. Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under William Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes. He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.