Szőllősy Csila et al. (szerk.): Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. C. sorozat 46. (Székesfehérvár, 2018)

Tanulmányok/közlemények - Nagy Veronika: Philine és Annamarie. Gyűjteménygyarapodás a Hetedhét Játékmúzeumban

Nagy Veronika: Philine és Annamarie. Käthe Kruse babák a Hetedhét Játékmúzeum gyűjteményében.

Veronika Nagy

Enrichment of collection in the Hetedhét Toy Museum

In 2013 the collection of the Hetedhét Toy Museum was enriched by two Käthe Kruse dolls through donation. The Käthe Kruse dolls appeared on the European toy market in the early 20th century. Their textile body and kind childlike face was closer to the world of children than the abstract charm and idealised beauty of the porcelain dolls, still fashionable in the late 19th century. The creator of the dolls, Käthe Kruse, a mother of several children and the wife of a sculptor, was one of those women who were the pioneers of self-realisation and artistic expression in the era. Over time Käthe Kruse’s doll manufacture grew into a huge company and the dolls bearing her name still represent high quality. The two new items, Philine and Annamarie, appeared on the market in 1929. This doll type is also called German children because that year Käthe Kruse was commissioned to produce four dolls after four well-known paintings: an Italian, a Spanish, an English and a German child. The latter became the most successful. The doll was made after the child’s portrait by Julius Hübner, Biedermeier painter, but Käthe Kruse shaped its head based on the model made of his son called Friedebald. Philine and Annamarie arrived in the collection of the Hetedhét Toy Museum in their original clothes and the original box. The two dolls well complement the three Käthe Kruse dolls of the Moskovszky collection and they may help us get a fuller picture of one of the determining personalities of European doll history.

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