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Flat Figures Painters Forum => Review Section => Flat Figure Sets => Topic started by: marko on May 30, 2015, 04:56:45 PM
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Two typically humorous and beautiful sets engraved by Mohr, purchased from Scholtz - Berliner Zinnfiguren.
Bathing at home 1500 and Public Bathing 1450
Douchkine has a charming version of these many folks will remember.
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Remindes me of Olaus Magnus' History of the Nordic peoples (org. printed in 1555) and one of the woodcuttings in it. The illustrated version of Troels-Lund's Dagligt liv i Norden i det sekstende Aarhundrede have many more deciptions of similar scenes. Those woodcuttings in the Danish book are though of German origin, on the net I have found Deutsches Badewesen in vergangen Tagen https://archive.org/stream/deutschesbadewes00mart_0#page/89/mode/thumb (https://archive.org/stream/deutschesbadewes00mart_0#page/89/mode/thumb)
You can clearly see where Mohr got his inspiration.
As a Finn I immediately recognize the public bath as a sauna. But I also notice the cupper, as I myself goes to a female cupper quarterly, in fact the very same as Anthony Bourdain went to during his visit in Helsinki
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Hallo Casper,
there are pictures of a nice medival bathing diorama on the side of Ulrich Lehnart, who edits
some similar figures.
Best regards
Michael
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Charming set indeed!
Would not be perfectly engaged with my Napoleon's retreat project I myself would buy one and paint the set, too.
Caspar's contribution (link: Deutsches Badewesens ...) is also interesting culturhistoric addition and is worthwhile to see!
Thank you.
Best regards-
sandor
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Bought the set in winter/spring this year. I am especially pleased with the skinn tone of the older man at the left.