Friedrich Hermann Lahl
Friedrich Hermann Lahl , nickname Männel-Lahl , (born August 6, 1842 in Geyersdorf ; † July 14, 1920 in Annaberg ) played an essential role in the central Ore Mountains in connection with so-called mass figures (also maché or paper maché figures ).
Life
Friedrich Hermann Lahl grew up as an illegitimate child under difficult circumstances. As a trained carpenter, Friedrich Hermann Lahl founded a box factory in Annaberg in 1864, which within a few years initially became a toy and a little later a mass figure manufacture.
family
Friedrich Hermann Lahl had the son Theodor Paul Lahl (1879–1959), who ran the company until 1959 after the death of his father. Paul Lahl and his wife Magarete Lahl also had a son, Siegfried Lahl, who was to continue the company. However, Siegfried Lahl, who was stationed as a military musician in Norway, was shot by his own comrades in World War II because he had forgotten the barracks slogan.
The company then and now
The figures from the Lahl company attracted attention and sales especially in the Annaberg area because of their high-quality painting. Lahl's nickname "Männel-Lahl" is still known to connoisseurs in the Ore Mountains today. Much of the historical mass figures that still exist and cannot be assigned is often attributed to the Lahl company, although there were around 15 different manufacturers of mass figures in the heyday of the mass figures in the Ore Mountains. However, in the middle to the end of the 19th century it was not customary to provide such goods with a company logo, which often makes it very difficult to assign the figures to the manufacturer.
Today the company Lahl-Massefiguren restores the figures, for which the historical forms of the company Friedrich Hermann Lahl-Annaberg are used. As they were over 150 years ago, the figures are handcrafted and painted. The company's range includes over 700 different figures from various fields, mainly miners, nativity figures, angels, dwarfs, Turks, hunting scenes, heralds, professions and religious figure groups.
literature
- Ehrhardt Heinold, Alix Paulsen: Erzgebirge toy ABC. Husum 2002, ISBN 978-3-89876-038-6 , p. 115.
Web links
- Literature on the history of the Erzgebirge mass figures in the catalog of the German National Library
- Museum with mass figure department Manufacture of Dreams - Annaberg Buchholz
- Website of the Museum Grimma with a special exhibition on the subject
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Hermann Lahl. In: Old revitalized - Nativity figures from the Ore Mountains. Grimma District Museum, February 24, 2008, accessed on January 4, 2019 .
- ^ Theodor Paul Lahl. In: Old revitalized - Nativity figures from the Ore Mountains. Grimma District Museum, February 24, 2008, accessed on January 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Christmas figures made of paper mache. In: Advent calendar of the TU Chemnitz 2002. Chemnitz University of Technology , December 1, 2002, accessed on January 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Company website of the successor company Lahl-Massefiguren
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lahl, Friedrich Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mannel-Lahl (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artisan and maker of paper mache figures |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geyersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1920 |
| Place of death | Annaberg |