Dresden cardboard
As Dresdner cardboard or Dresdner cardboard is called small figures or decorative elements made of fine embossed box. Produced since around 1870, it had its heyday from 1880 until the outbreak of the First World War. It owes its name to the production area, the area around Dresden . The intention was to make three-dimensional objects out of paper in such a way that they looked as if they were embossed from sheet metal.
Manufacturing
The production was carried out using the hollow embossing process: Using two stamps, the upper and the lower stamp, in which elevations and depressions exactly corresponded, a given embossing was imprinted on a slightly damp, relatively elastic sheet of cardboard or several layers of glued paper in the embossing press. The resulting plastic paper forms were punched out or cut out. If you put several parts together, hollow and light objects with an extremely plastic appearance were created. The cardboard objects left the factory as semi-finished products; they were completed in homework.
The Dresden jewelry was given a glossy effect by laminated cardboard with metal foil. As a result, the filigree three-dimensional products looked deceptively similar to those made of metal at first glance.
The variety of shapes knew no bounds, it ranged from animals, plants, houses, musical instruments to riders, tandem riders, carriages or steamboats. Religious motifs, on the other hand, are almost completely absent. There are three types of Dresden objects: flat one-sided, semi-plastic double-sided and three-dimensional. The latter in particular can be small works of art.
use
The objects made from Dresden cardboard were used as ornaments, joke articles, toys and especially as Christmas tree decorations . As jewelry, they exuded shine and luxury and thanks to the raw material paper remained affordable for many sections of the population.
literature
- Alfred Dünnenberger-Hager: O you happy, o you blessed, gracious Christmas season. Self-published, Baar 2015, ISBN 978-3-03808-008-4 , pp. 301–313.
- Elke Gottschalk: Paper antiques. Luxury paper from 1820 to 1920. Battenberg, Augsburg 1996, p. 162 ff.
- Joseph G. Hrncirik: Luxury made of cardboard. Dresden Christmas tree decorations 1870–1914. Joseph G. Hrncirik Collection. Krumbach 2010, 2nd edition 2011 (without ISBN).
- Wolfram Metzger, Jutta Tremmel-Endres: trees shining, trees dazzling ... historical Christmas tree decorations. With texts by Hinrich Behning and Helmuth Thoma. Info, Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-88190-209-0 (catalog for the exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum 1996/97), pp. 106–117.
- Eva Stille (text), Ursula Pfistermeister (photo and design): Christmas tree decorations. A book for collectors and lovers of old things. Hans Carl, Nuremberg 1979, 2nd, revised. 1985 edition, ISBN 3-418-00322-2 , pp. 119-133.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph G. Hrncirik: Luxury from cardboard. Dresden Christmas tree decorations 1870–1914. Joseph G. Hrncirik Collection. 2nd edition Krumbach 2011, p. 13.