Chromium figurine

Description

The figurines to be cut out to be used without any purpose except to spend time, are born in Germany around mid-19th century. The second industrial revolution was in place and the German printers, who were first of all entrepreneurs, needed a fast market, stuff that cost little and could be bought by many. I don’t really know the story of their birth, but I like to imagine a moustache German father, with a slightly big but well-coated belly, the shirt with the rigid collar, the galosche for when it came out. When he returned home from his print shop he could see his daughters making drawings that then colored, simple and comfortable activity for long winter days. And I also like to think that he saw her cut out the drawings, prepare the glue with the flour, cut out images from the magazines and paste everything together on a notebook and dedicated. Of course, here we are in the happy bourgeoisie that can afford it, but to him social issues matter little; the pressures of more to make his activity fruit. What to print that was accessible to many and then earn on the quantity? Then tell the club he met an English gentleman, English editor, we say the son of Raphael Tuck, sent to Germany to find new markets to their chromographed postcards that sold very well in England. The two men sit at a table together and the youngest tells of the father's affairs, the escape from Prussia, of the business born from a passion of the father for design and above all, from his entrepreneurial breath. I like to think that the idea of ...