Puppet
A throwing doll is a doll for children that, as the name suggests, is intended for playful tossing and dropping. It was designed in 1923 by the craftsman Alma Siedhoff-Buscher , who was developing child-friendly toys at the Bauhaus at the time . Registered with the German Reich Patent Office in 1926 , the doll is the only patented Bauhaus product.
Description and material
Throw dolls are tough and at the same time soft toys. When choosing the materials, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher attached great importance to natural materials and robustness. The body of the thin-limbed dolls is made of braided bast , which is flexible. The raffia body is partially crocheted with clothes made of soft chenille yarn , which represents the clothes. The clothing is also made from braided strands of yarn. Incorporated wooden balls of different sizes form the head, hands and feet.
The patent registration with the German Reich Patent Office from 1926 bears the official designation "Doll made of plait-like weave". The patent specification states that the doll is characterized by mobility and resilience. There are different details about the scope of manufacture of the puppets. On the one hand, in contrast to the shipbuilding game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, they should never have been mass-produced, according to other sources they were a best seller. Today, smaller replicas of the dolls are handcrafted by the “ Lebenshilfe -Werk Weimar Apolda ” and offered in the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar.
Educational benefit
When developing the puppets, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher was inspired by reform pedagogy and by Friedrich Fröbel's demands for simple and child-friendly play material that encourages the child's imagination. Her intention was for children to be able to throw puppets to each other in community instead of playing alone with a doll in a corner. This frees children from predetermined play patterns and fixed roles. Throwing should also train the children's motor skills and perception. The puppets can also fall to the ground as random figures.
Web links
- Photo with three puppets at bauhaus100.de
- Photo of two puppets with crocheted clothes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laura Weissmüller: Design: Alma Buscher in Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 8, 2019
- ↑ Ulrike Müller: Alma Siedhoff-Buscher in: Bauhaus women: Masters in art, craft and design . Sandmann, Munich 2009, p. 116.
- ↑ Stefan Locke: Mother at the Bauhaus in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 24, 2019
- ↑ Beate Hagen: Bauhaus designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher: "In every bleak time there are cheerful hours" in Thüringer Allgemeine from November 5, 2018
- ↑ Beate Hagen: Fine feeling for child justice in Volksstimme of June 10, 2019
- ↑ Weimar Museum Shop
- ↑ Weimar Classicism and the invention of the puppet at the Europaschule Gladenbach from July 20, 2014
- ↑ Jochen Stöckmann: The Bauhaus designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher at Deutschlandfunk from September 25, 2019