Trivia

Founder of Albertini-Film GmbH, a German-Italian production company, in 1920.

His career came to an end because of a combination of the advent of the sound film and his severe alcoholism, which resulted in his being placed in a mental institution for a time. When he was released he began suffering from dementia--from the effects of his heavy drinking over the years--and was again placed in a mental institution. He died in 1945 in the San Gaetano psychiatric hospital in Budrino, Italy.

He was a gym teacher in Turin, Italy, and later became a sailor before joining up with Circus Busch as an artist.

In 1905 he got married with the artist Domenica Meirone and he was very successful with his number on the trapeze till 1914.

The end of the whilom personified power was tragically. The alcohol was part of his end and when he got part of an argument he was admitted to a mental home for a brief time. After the release he returned to Italy where he suffered from proceeding dementia. Finally hie died in January 1945 in the psychiatric hospital San Gaetano in Budrio.