Emil Pfeiffer (toy manufacturer)

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Emil Pfeiffer (EP) was a manufacturer of toys , mass figures and dolls founded in Austria in the 19th century with headquarters in Vienna and a branch in Germany .

history

Inner courtyard of - then - Neubaugasse 33 in Vienna in 1908;
Photo by August Stauda in the possession of the Austrian National Library

The company was founded in 1873 and began making figures for children from around 1880. After the first toy trains found their way into children's rooms a little later , Pfeiffer created figures for the railway staff and other figures that made playing with a train station look lively. The materials for such play figures consisted of a composition mixture made of sand, milling waste and chestnut flour in discarded bakery machines .

Detail of today's Westbahnstrasse 1 in Vienna: Terracotta relief Spielmann with children by Gertrude Diener-Hillinger;
Photo by Ewald Judt

"[...] The Pfeiffer figures became world-famous because of their loving and colorful painting", for which Pfeiffer "[...] only hired the best painters, mostly students from the city art academies".

Pfeiffer used bisque- porcelain heads from Ernst Heubach and - with the form numbers 390, 560a and 1894 - Armand Marseille for their doll bodies .

In 1926 the company was renamed Emil Pfeiffer & Sons . As a branch of the Viennese manufacturer, the Pfeiffer brothers company was run in Germany.

As Emil Pfeiffer Nachf. And at Neubaugasse 33 in Vienna VII , the company produced a catalog for 1956, illustrated with black and white drawings of soldiers, animals and people for a farm, Tipple-Topple animals and wooden toys / novelties for 1956 - Novelties for 1956 , subtitled in German and English. The company had already had a second location at Westbahnstrasse 1 in Vienna in the 1940s .

Brands and form numbers

For products produced by Pfeiffer Compositions dolls the company let her in 1904 trademark Pfeifer Enter. In 1906 the brand was registered with the intertwined initials EP in a circle.

In addition, the registered names Fritz (registered in 1917), Huberta (1917), Hanka (1924) and Hubsy (1925) are known. The name Tipple Topple , previously registered in 1922, denoted the company's own composite material.

literature

  • Jean Bach: International Handbook of Doll Brands. A doll identification book , English original title: The main street dictionary of doll marks , translated by Wolfgang Hartmann, Munich: Laterna Magica, 1989, ISBN 3-87467-389-8 ; P. 100; contents
  • Jürgen Cieslik , Marianne Cieslik : Cieslik's Lexicon of the German Doll Industry. Brands, data, facts , 2nd, revised edition, Hamburg: Marquardt & Wellhausen; Jülich: Cieslik, 1989, ISBN 978-3-939806-20-2 (Wellhausen & Marquardt) and ISBN 3-921844-20-7 (Cieslik)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jean Bach: Internationales handbook of the doll brands. A doll identification book , English original title: The main street dictionary of doll marks , translated by Wolfgang Hartmann, Munich: Laterna Magica, 1989, ISBN 3-87467-389-8 ; P. 100
  2. ↑ a b c Ulrich Wilhelm (responsible): Figures / Colorful hustle and bustle at the train station , sample photography of a group of figures and further information from the TV show Kunst & Krempel of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation on March 27, 2010, last accessed on September 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Compare, for example, the photograph of the described catalog on ebay , last accessed on September 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Compare the letter from Emil Pfeiffer Nachf. To the American Military Government of May 6, 1949, NARA M1928. Records of the German External Assets Branch of the US Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section, 1945-1950 on fold3.com , last accessed on September 11, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 5.4 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 54.5"  E