Identifying German Parian Dolls

Identifying German Parian Dolls

Author: Mary Gorham Krombholz

Publisher: Reverie Publishing

Published: 2006-06-23

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1932485376

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This important book from the author of three previous books on antique German dolls, features ground-breaking new research on the parian dolls produced by eight factories in Germany during the late 19th century. In preparing this book, the author travelled to the sites of the factories in Thuringia to dig for important artefacts; her labours uncovered over 1,000 porcelain shards that show the distinctive facial painting used by each factory highlighted in the book. These discoveries, combined with her collection of original porcelain factory ledgers and sample books, allow her to attribute with certainty the makers of these beautiful dolls, especially those produced during the 1860s and 1870s and previously designated as being by "unknown makers". Mary Krombholz also makes use of rare written records describing daily life inside a 19th-century porcelain factory to clearly delineate the significant role played by each worker in doll production. Her narrative clarifies not only the process of making porcelain dolls in the 19th century, but also presents a vivid picture of life in the Thuringian villages in which these factories were located. Over 350 colour photographs, all close views detailing the painting and decoration of these pieces, accompany the invaluable text, making this the most significant volume on German parian dolls to be published.


Kestner

Kestner

Author: Jan Foulke

Publisher: Hobby House Press

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780875885384

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This book describes the German bisque dolls manufactured by the German company, Kestner, and produced from the early 1880s until the merging of the Kestner factory with Kammer & Reinhardt in the 1930s. This book features all the Kestner dolls, including the Hilda dolls, the closed-mouth, open-mouth and character babies and all bisque dolls. Extensive research has been undertaken with the mould numbers to further aid identification.


Identifying German Chinas 1840s-1930s

Identifying German Chinas 1840s-1930s

Author: Mary Gorham Krombholz

Publisher: Hobby House Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780875886718

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Featuring 350 colour photographs with the loving face of each doll clearly visible to aid in the identification process. This book is a treasure trove filled with detailed photo captions that identify the maker. The author has used research methods to correct many so-called names to the authentic original name. Each doll is credited to the decade in which it was primarily produced. Male china dolls, all-china dolls and reproduction china dolls are described in chapters that are separate from the ten decades of china doll production.


German Porcelain Dolls, 1836-2002

German Porcelain Dolls, 1836-2002

Author: Mary Gorham Krombholz

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780875886374

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This outstanding reference book features tantalizing color photos and descriptions of over 350 dolls produced in German porcelain factories from 1836 to the present. Take a pictorial tour of a 100-year-old porcelain factory to learn how antique porcelain dolls were made. Original sample books, old doll molds and porcelain shards identify the makers of many previously unknown china, parian-type, and bisque dolls. From the Kestner dolls to the artist dolls of today, this book provides an in depth look at sought-after German porcelain dolls. The colorful Hertwig bonnet head dolls, the expressive Gebruder Heubach character dolls, the top-of-the-line Kestner dolls, the captivating Simon & Halbig dolls as well as the detailed Carl Schneider half dolls are showcased in this book. Dozens of early, unmarked chinas made by the A.W. Fr. Kister porcelain factory in Scheibe-Alsbach are pictured in detail. Dolls from the following porcelain factories are also included in this book: Alt, Beck & Gottschalck; Baehr & Proeschild; Wm. And F.W. Goebel; Ernst Heubach; C.F. Kling & Co.; Gebruder Knoch; Gebruder Kuhnlenz; Limbach; Armand Marseille; Theodor Recknagel; Carl Scheidig; Schoenau-Hoffmeister; Swaine & Co.; Hermann Voigt; and Weiss, Kuhnert and Co. This is a must-have book for the doll lover.


German Doll Patterns

German Doll Patterns

Author: Hobby House Press, Incorporated

Publisher: Hobby House PressInc

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780875882369

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Patterns for both 12" and 15" bisque dolls from 1900-1915 including chemise, stockings, shoes, night gown, drawers, etc.


Kafka and the Doll

Kafka and the Doll

Author: Larissa Theule

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 059311633X

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Based on a true story about Franz Kafka Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks. The legend of Kafka and the doll has captivated imaginations for decades as it reveals the playful and compassionate side of a man known for his dark and brooding tales. Kafka and the Doll is a testament to living life to the fullest and to the life-changing power of storytelling.


Transnational German Studies

Transnational German Studies

Author: Rebecca Braun

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1789627311

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This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.