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Studio-Talk
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Studio- Talk
DOLLS IN OLD SILESIAN COSTUME
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY MARTA J. LANGER-SCHLAFFKE
BRESLAU.—The two groups of quaintly
dressed dolls illustrated on this page
represent a few out of a considerable
collection exhibited a few months ago
at the Museum of Applied Art (Kunstgewerbe-
Museum) of this town by the Verband Schlesischer
Textil-Kunstlerinnen, an association of past and
present pupils of Frau Langer-Schlaffke, who, as
mentioned in a note on her work which appeared
in an earlier number of this magazine (January
1908), conducts a school of embroidery and textile
work in conjunction with her husband. Readers
who recall Marion Kaulitz’s costumed dolls, as
illustrated in these pages, may detect a resem-
blance in the facial features of Frau Langer-
Schlaffke’s little people. They are, in fact, the
same types as those which were modelled for this
reformer of dollyland by Josef Wackerle, the
designer of Nymphenburg porcelain, and other
artists, and were adopted owing to the lack of any
real Silesian types, though some among them were
found to answer admirably for the fair-haired, bony
type of Silesian peasant woman. It is, however,
in their costumes that these little creations of Frau
Langer-Schlaffke and her pupils make such an
engaging array, and here local characteristics have
been faithfully reproduced. The caps of the
“ Schlasche Huxtleute ” (wedding folk), in our first
illustration, are made of real old brocade and
trimmed with old ribbons and lace. For the rest,
the dresses of these dolls, and those shown in the
other illustration representing a christening party,
are those to be met with in various parts of Silesia
where the old-time costumes are still worn. Each
little figure is the object of almost maternal care
and thought on the part of its designer, and thus it
acquires, as it were, a personality of its own.
COPENHAGEN.—Mme. Bertha Dorph’s
boy and girl are almost as well known
in Denmark as are the divers members
of the Carl Larsson family in Sweden,
but the similarity can be carried no further. Mme.
Dorph, whose technique and artistic temperament
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DOLLS IN OLD SILESIAN COSTUME
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY MARTA J. LANGER-SCHLAFFKE
BRESLAU.—The two groups of quaintly
dressed dolls illustrated on this page
represent a few out of a considerable
collection exhibited a few months ago
at the Museum of Applied Art (Kunstgewerbe-
Museum) of this town by the Verband Schlesischer
Textil-Kunstlerinnen, an association of past and
present pupils of Frau Langer-Schlaffke, who, as
mentioned in a note on her work which appeared
in an earlier number of this magazine (January
1908), conducts a school of embroidery and textile
work in conjunction with her husband. Readers
who recall Marion Kaulitz’s costumed dolls, as
illustrated in these pages, may detect a resem-
blance in the facial features of Frau Langer-
Schlaffke’s little people. They are, in fact, the
same types as those which were modelled for this
reformer of dollyland by Josef Wackerle, the
designer of Nymphenburg porcelain, and other
artists, and were adopted owing to the lack of any
real Silesian types, though some among them were
found to answer admirably for the fair-haired, bony
type of Silesian peasant woman. It is, however,
in their costumes that these little creations of Frau
Langer-Schlaffke and her pupils make such an
engaging array, and here local characteristics have
been faithfully reproduced. The caps of the
“ Schlasche Huxtleute ” (wedding folk), in our first
illustration, are made of real old brocade and
trimmed with old ribbons and lace. For the rest,
the dresses of these dolls, and those shown in the
other illustration representing a christening party,
are those to be met with in various parts of Silesia
where the old-time costumes are still worn. Each
little figure is the object of almost maternal care
and thought on the part of its designer, and thus it
acquires, as it were, a personality of its own.
COPENHAGEN.—Mme. Bertha Dorph’s
boy and girl are almost as well known
in Denmark as are the divers members
of the Carl Larsson family in Sweden,
but the similarity can be carried no further. Mme.
Dorph, whose technique and artistic temperament
161