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Alma Siedhoff Buscher - Ship model (1) - Bauhaus Spiel
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Alma Siedhoff Buscher - Ship model (1) - Bauhaus Spiel

Bauhaus game: Ein Schiff ("A Ship") - according to the original game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher from the Bauhaus factory around 1923/1924. Authentic reproduction/remake. Lacquered wood. Minor signs of wear are also due to the production process, minor damage on the box. Very good condition, unused. Please look at the photos in detail. Complete with original booklet - as purchased and now on offer. Sold out. Size of box: 27.5 x 6.5 x 4 cm The game will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking. Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899-1944): Alma Buscher developed child-friendly Bauhaus games that offer the opportunity to imitate (a ship) but also encourage creative development. Alma Siedhoff-Buscher joined the Bauhaus in 1922. At first, she took the pre-course offered by Johannes Itten as well as classes by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. She took part in the large Bauhaus exhibition of 1923 and designed the interior of the children's room in the experimental house Am Horn. She also contributed to Ludwig Hirschfeld-Macks' "plays of colour and light". Moreover, various children's toys such as the "Kleine Schiffbauspiel" ("Small Shipbuilding Game") and a puppet theatre were developed during this time. In the year 1926, she exhibited her works at the exhibition "Das Spielzeug" in Nuremberg. Alma Siedhoff-Buscher moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 where she continued studying and afterwards working as an employee until 1927. During her last year with the Bauhaus, she designed cut-out sheets and drawing primers for the publisher Otto Maier Ravensburg. Her marriage with the dancer and actor Werner Siedhoff, who was active on the Schlemmers Bauhaus stage, in 1926 was followed by the birth of her son Joost in the same year and the birth of her daughter Lore in 1928. Alma Siedhoff-Buscher was victim of a bombing raid on 25 September 1944 in Buchschlag near Frankfurt am Main.

No. 34804235

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Alma Siedhoff Buscher - Ship model (1) - Bauhaus Spiel

Alma Siedhoff Buscher - Ship model (1) - Bauhaus Spiel

Bauhaus game: Ein Schiff ("A Ship") - according to the original game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher from the Bauhaus factory around 1923/1924. Authentic reproduction/remake. Lacquered wood. Minor signs of wear are also due to the production process, minor damage on the box. Very good condition, unused. Please look at the photos in detail.
Complete with original booklet - as purchased and now on offer. Sold out.
Size of box: 27.5 x 6.5 x 4 cm

The game will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking.


Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899-1944):

Alma Buscher developed child-friendly Bauhaus games that offer the opportunity to imitate (a ship) but also encourage creative development.

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher joined the Bauhaus in 1922. At first, she took the pre-course offered by Johannes Itten as well as classes by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
She took part in the large Bauhaus exhibition of 1923 and designed the interior of the children's room in the experimental house Am Horn. She also contributed to Ludwig Hirschfeld-Macks' "plays of colour and light". Moreover, various children's toys such as the "Kleine Schiffbauspiel" ("Small Shipbuilding Game") and a puppet theatre were developed during this time.
In the year 1926, she exhibited her works at the exhibition "Das Spielzeug" in Nuremberg.
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 where she continued studying and afterwards working as an employee until 1927. During her last year with the Bauhaus, she designed cut-out sheets and drawing primers for the publisher Otto Maier Ravensburg.
Her marriage with the dancer and actor Werner Siedhoff, who was active on the Schlemmers Bauhaus stage, in 1926 was followed by the birth of her son Joost in the same year and the birth of her daughter Lore in 1928.
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher was victim of a bombing raid on 25 September 1944 in Buchschlag near Frankfurt am Main.

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