Author: Selheim, Claudia
Title: Mikrowelten Zinnfiguren Die Sammlung Alfred R. Sulzer ; Ausstellung IM Germanischen Nationalmuseum Vom 9. Mai 2024 Bis 26. Januar 2025
Description: Nurnberg, Germany, Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2024. Hardcover. Quarto Hardcover. Boards bound in a light metallic cloth with embossed lettering and picture of a toy carraige. No jacket, as issued. Many color images interspersed throughout text. 287 pages. German language. The toy collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum has seen a remarkable increase: the high-quality Alfred R. Sulzer tin figure collection with around 145,000 pieces. In order to properly appreciate these, highlights from it are presented in an exhibition and a generously illustrated catalogue. Contrary to expectations, you will not only find the tin soldier there. Scenes from everyday bourgeois life in the Biedermeier and historicist periods, from literature and from the world of the nobility reflect media events and aspects of cultural history. Nuremberg and Fürth are among the main production sites from which the mass-produced figurines conquered the (inter)national market. In 14 essays, the authors embark on a journey through the multifaceted cosmos of tin figures and show how they were used to prepare contemporary history for children: the toys provide exciting insights into the contradictory and rapidly changing living environments of the 19th century on the way to globalized modernity. Like New. No blemishes to speak of. Looks like new! .

Keywords: European Decorative Arts ; Tin Toys ; ; Fine Metalwork - European


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