Claire Dux

Clara Auguste, called Claire Dux ( born August 2, 1885 in Witkowo at Gniezno, † October 8, 1967 in Chicago) was a German singer.

After she had moved with her parents as a child to Bromberg, began her musical training they to Berlin later led among other things to Adolf Deppe, and to Milan. In 1906 she made ​​her debut as an opera singer in Cologne as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute. After her departure from Cologne, she went to Berlin in 1911 to the Royal Opera, where she worked until 1918. After the end of World War II, she worked as a concert soprano at different homes, including at the Stockholm Opera. In 1921 she went to the United States where she sang at the Opera of Chicago until 1926. Then she retired into private life.

She was his third wife since August 1926, the American meat producer Charles H. Swift - Swift & Company - married after she was previously married to his first marriage with the German actor Hans Albers. Salvador Dalí painted in 1942, the painting " Melancholy - Portrait of singer Claire Dux ".