The small museum
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| place |
Hagnau am Bodensee 
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| Art |
Doll and toy museum
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| opening | 1986 |
| management |
Gerda Roessler-Kaleske
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-332010 |
The Small Museum in Hagnau on Lake Constance is a private one-room museum. It shows dolls, dollhouses , kitchens, shops and other toys from the period from 1830 to 1960. Special exhibitions have also been organized in other museums.
Museum history
In the beginning there was a large toy stove around 1900 that was not searched for, but found. Looking for a little one around 1950 for the daughter was not found. The Small Museum owes itself to this coincidence: the toy collection of Gerda Rößler-Kaleske and Erich Rößler (1939–2008), which began in 1975 with it. The collection grew quantitatively and qualitatively so that in 1986 the small museum in the basement of the private house was opened to the public. Over the years it has been continuously supplemented and expanded according to high quality standards, it has been systematically concentrated, mainly on dolls, dollhouses, shops of all kinds, including the rich, historically consistent accessories that are differentiated down to the smallest details (from glove stretcher, button boot puller, mini photo album with real Photographs, a diaphany with a stand, Richard Wagner busts to a playable mini piano). It could take more than 15 years for a doll's kitchen with a pantry around 1880 to be completed with every imaginable inventory in such a way that everything fit in with time and style. Preserving and showing the authenticity of the objects is an obligation; only as much as is necessary and as little as possible is restored. “I'm interested in the relation to the real living spaces of the different epochs, the mirror image in miniature of the respective living culture and fashion. Collecting is work, care, knowledge, in short, it is cultural work. ”The exhibits derive their additional specialty from the intimate presentation and individual communication. The limited presentation space is repeatedly used in new and different ways with annual changing exhibitions, concentrated in a single room and on three presentation levels from floor to ceiling. Special exhibitions at home and abroad as well as extensive loans (e.g. to the neighboring city museum Überlingen ) have expanded the local radius of the small museum, as have numerous reports in various media. In 2007 the “Association of Friends and Patrons of the Small Museum Hagnau - Toys from Two Centuries” was founded. V. “founded. The museum is also highly valued internationally, as demonstrated by the visits by the museum director of the National Museum in Monte Carlo , Anett Bordeau, and the director of the Paris Doll Museum , Samy Odin. "After so many visits to museums in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, France and Germany, we have come to the conclusion that this museum is the best for dollhouses and kitchens." (Dean Murray 2003, after his death his wife Lynn die annual doll tours (LTC Dolltours) with experts through Europe).
exhibition
The "toy collection resembles a historical picture book" (Anita Chmielewski-Hagius, director of the Prinzesshoff District Museum in Itzehoe), but is not "children's stuff", but a "three-dimensional arc of images covering all areas of life, a miniature mirror image of the adult world" , to whom (upper) middle-class children and young people were introduced through play (Gerda Rößler-Kaleske). The collection includes around a hundred dollhouses, spread over the epochs since 1830: from the Biedermeier period (the oldest exhibit: a living room), historicism , Art Nouveau and Art Deco up to the 1950s - one or more, all lavishly and authentically furnished ( partly complete with filigree furniture made of (ivory) bone or pewter). These include dollhouses, dollhouses, doll kitchens (with pantries and goose stalls where the poultry were fattened), shops (colonial goods, butchers and game shops, general stores, fashion goods, hat, toy, drug and specialty stores, antiques and rarities, confectionery, Market stalls, a pottery, etc.), a folding dolls house for traveling, baths and bathing rooms, a wooden mobile home (around 1920), pavilions, arbors, stately riding and horse stables, secular and spiritual schools (a Spanish nuns 'school and nuns' cell as examples religious toys, including a straw ark and a children's altar with all the mess inventory), a carousel and a Humpty Dumpty circus from the 1920s, as well as a music machine with six dolls and a dog (Zinner company) and dollhouses from the 1950s Years.
You can see products from important dollhouse manufacturers (including kitchens and shops): the Carl Brandt junior company. in Gössnitz (furniture); Moritz Gottschalk Marienberg / Erzgebirge, dollhouses, dollhouses and furniture; B. Harras, Böhlen in Thuringia dollhouses and furniture; Christian Hacker, Nuremberg, dollhouses and houses; JD Kestner, Waltershausen Thuringia, dolls and dollhouse furniture; Rock and Graner, Biberach, dollhouses and furniture; Albin Schönherr Niederlauterstein / Erzgebirge, dollhouses and houses and Konrad Scheibach, Nuremberg.
Pewter kitchen, 1st half of the 19th century
Motorhome opened, Gottschalk, around 1920
Dollhouse, Gottschalk, 1880 (Möbel Delling & Sohn, Eppendorf)
Bad, R&G, 1900
Laube, Gottschalk, around 1900
Hat shop, Hacker, 1880/90
The focus of the doll collection is on the early dolls, which are made of wood (e.g. Val Gardena dolls in original clothing from 1830) and paper mache (e.g. a 92 cm tall, in original clothing except for the shoes from the Voith company in Thuringia) , and a paper- mesh doll from 1830 in an empire dress with a hairstyle called the Apollo Knot. Outstanding is a paper mache doll wearing the robe of Fanny Elßler , which she wears as Florinda in Casimir Gide's ballet in Le Diable boiteux (The Limping Devil, 1836) (choreography by Jean Coralli) and in which she dances the famous Cachucha (the original robe is in the theater museum Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna). In general, there is little evidence of the manufacture of the early dolls.
The collection and exhibition become a "treasure trove for every folklorist" (Manfred Bachmann, former director of the Dresden State Art Collection ), in which the (large) bourgeois cultural history of the past can be vividly and meticulously studied down to the smallest detail in the staging of an ideal world .
Another special feature of the exhibition: each of the privately collected objects does not remain anonymous, but has its own special story, which the collector can tell.
Wax doll, English, 1880
Biedermeier doll Voith, 1835
Biedermeier dolls, Fanny Elßler (center), 1835/40
Pedlar Doll, 1860
External exhibition dates (selection)
- 1992/93 Landesmuseum Schloß Bruchsal : From market stall to supermarket
- 1993/94 Dresden City Museum : The shop of yore
- 1994/95 Stadtmuseum Hagen : small and fine
- 1995/96 Stadtmuseum Dresden: Oh, it smells good ...
- 1996 Ulm Autumn Fair, in the fair's glass pavilion: Historical dolls' houses
- 1997/98 Bürserberg (Austria) Christmas exhibition: childhood memories
- 2002/003 District Museum Prinzesshof in Itzehoe: Big world in miniature
- 2008 Falkensee Museum of Local History near Berlin: Small and fine
- 2010/11 Messkirch Castle Museum: Small World
Special exhibitions in the small museum
- 2006 Home and hearth - dear and valuable. Doll kitchens, shops, schools
- 2007 Fashion and home decor in miniature. Dolls and dollhouses and houses
- 2008 game worlds. Tin and wooden toys, theater, circus, construction sets, games, dolls
- 2010 Treasures from the treasure trove of the Small Museum: dolls, dollhouses, kitchens, shops and other toys from 1830–1920
- 2012 Small and fine, very big
- 2013 Toy Wonder Worlds 1830–1920
- 2014 Dolls, their houses, rooms, kitchens and shops as well as other beautiful toys from 1830–1920
Publications
calendar
- Dollhouses 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000; Weingarten art publisher (partly also with images of other toy museums)
- Toys 1993, dolls 1994; Korsch Verlag (partly also with images from other collections)
- Trade in Transition 1994; Verlag Ackermann (partly with images from the Überlingen Toy Museum)
DVDs (Forbes Video Production)
- The Small Museum, Hagnau, 2006 (Ger.)
- Home and Hearth. Dear to he heart. Special Summer Exhibition at Das Kleine Museum, Hagnau, 2006
- The small museum. Exhibition. That's how the old dolls lived. Fashion & home decor in miniature, 2007
- World of Play. Exhibition Das Kleine Museum, Hagnau, 2008
- Stars of the Das Kleine Museum Collection, 2009
Postcards
- Small and fine. Historical dollhouses for girls and boys. Series of 30 postcards from the Gerda-Rößler-Kaleske collection. Photos: Ulrike Schneiders.
See also
Web links
- Homepage The Small Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerda and Erich Rößler: In the realm of dolls. In: Collector Journal 3. 1991, pp. 340-345.
- ↑ Petra Mostbacher-Dix: Christmas in a small way. The wonder world of historical dollhouses. In: Beautiful Swabia. 2014, p. 13.
- ↑ "In detail and put together with a lot of passion." The head of the museum from Monaco was yesterday at the toy museum in Hagnau - Gerda Rößler shows rare exhibits. In: Südkurier. September 16, 1999.
- ↑ Big visit to the “Small Museum”. 40 visitors from five nations. In: Südkurier. November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Wolfgang Messner: The collector from Lake Constance is the destination of far-traveling fans. Gerda Rößler has built one of the world's best toy museums in Hagnau. In: Südwestdeutsche Zeitung. November 24, 2003.
- ↑ Schleswig-Holstein. Culture, History, Nature 11/2002, p. 4; Heike Stüben: Big world, very small in the doll's house. Exhibition in the district museum Itzehoe. In: Kiel News. November 23, 2002.
- ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: Home sweet home in miniature. In: Südkurier. July 14, 2006.
- ↑ Marianne Cieslik and Swantje Köhler: Lexicon of the dollhouses and dollhouses . Jülich 2003
- ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: High praise for a small museum. In: Südkurier December 22, 2011.