This most recent addition to my personal collection entitled Fechten im Bild (literally 'Fencing in picture') is more of a novelty than your standard fencing treatise, since instead of relying on text, it predominantly consists of photos of various fencing positions for sabre, foil, and épée (36 photos, to be exact), with the methods shown for the first two weapons based heavily on the Barbasetti lineage.
Scans: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1loO_vQf83bWzHwPwPBBfBopD65PC8zww/view?usp=sharing
Its author, Hans Murero, was born in 1881 in Klagenfurt, Austria, and was a graduate of the Wiener-Neustadt school, studying under the renowned Milan Neralić, himself a student of Luigi Barbasetti. Murero remained at the Wiener-Neustadt school as an assistant instructor until Neralić hired him as his assistant in Berlin. Murero was recalled to the Wiener-Neustadt school during the First World War, after which he spent some time teaching at the Wiener Athletiksport-Klub and Union Fechtclub in Vienna, eventually returning to teaching in Berlin, where he died of laryngeal disease in 1930.
Sources
"Hans Murero," Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung, 2 February 1919, 106–7.
"Michael Neralić," Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung, 24 February 1918, 60.
"Tagesneuigkeiten," Neues Wiener Journal, 24 May 1930, 9.
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