![]() ![]() This one in the picture is a puppet of Kasperle, a self-determined, puppet representation of the urban everyman, as well as the most prominent puppet character in Germany and Austria. But what caught my attention the most is the substantial number of glove puppets, representing a policeman, a queen and a king, a witch, villains just to mention some. Among the shelves of the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery’s storage we can find different wooden objects from Germany, from butter moulds to spoons and confectionary stamps. It is likely that this puppet was purchased in one of these events, which Harry documents in the correspondence held at the Archives and Special Collections of David Wilson Library, and therefore travelled to Leicester. He was fluent in German, and used to travel to Germany frequently during the period of the Weimar Republic to visit design fairs and international exhibitions. Harry was particularly interested in the German design reform, that began in 1907 with the foundation of the Deutscher Werkbund (German Applied Arts) association in Munich, and the debate about the goal of applied arts. I would like to start this journey into the Dryad collection with an object that represents an important part of Harry Peach’s life: his link with German culture. ![]()
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