Clay treasures from Heřman Landsfeld collection
Agáta Petrakovičová Šikulová
Historical clay toys are a bit of a rarity, as they are difficult to find; when repeatedly used, such toys had usually been damaged or completely destroyed. Nonetheless, it was possible to find them as fragments in waste areas of old, disused workshops. Today, they seem to be found only in museums or private collections. The authoress of this article introduces the collections from the estate of a ceramic artist, collector and amateur archaeologist Heřman Landsfeld who, between 1918 and 1938, lived in the town of Modra, working in the local ceramics workshop. The collection comprises twenty pieces, of which four are animal figurines and sixteen are varied human figurines.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2017:
- Toys through the passage of time
- How the law perceives it
- Alena Hlucháňová: When making animal figurines becomes your hobby
- From the collections of the Museum of Puppet Cultures and Toys
- Bohuslav Šippich and Kyjatice toy
- Kyjatice phenomena
- Research into wooden toys
- Sixty tremendous years of šúpolienky (cornhusk dolls)
- Jaroslav Švihra: Accompanied by wood from early childhood
- Preservation research into dolls wearing folk costumes
- Wooden cubes or plastic jigsaws?
- What toys did our producers used to play with?
- Clay treasures from Heřman Landsfeld collection
- Toy as a souvenir
- Shifting boundaries of reality
- When game connects all players
- As Infinity came into being
- A family affair
- Slovak folk embroidery, edition Inspirations