Max Schanz: Spielzeug Gestalten im Erzgebirge
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Max Schanz: Spielzeug Gestalten im Erzgebirge
By (Author) Sabine Rommel
Edited by Mathias Zahn
Arnoldsche
Arnoldsche
1st February 2022
Germany
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General
Non Fiction
688.72092
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Paperback
208
Width 265mm, Height 225mm
778g
Description
The leaping deer from the range of wooden toys from the Seiffen region is an international symbol in the gleaming eyes of children and collectors alike. It was designed by Max Schanz (18951953), who as a teacher and director of the Spielwarenfachschule [Technical College for Toys] informed the production of toys in the Erz Mountains. Presented in German.
His designs were implemented through the divisi-on of labor in family-oriented cottage industries, achieving the standards set by the Werkbund [Ger-man Work Federation] for attractive aesthetic and professional production: from small carol singers to six-meter-high Christmas pyramids, all basic com-ponents were turned on the lathe and thus display the design idiom typical of Seiffen.
Spielzeug Gestalten im Erzgebirge portrays a signi-ficant chapter in German design history, from the late Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nati-onal Socialist rule, to the early GDR.
