Am 28.03.18 um 15:33 schrieb Wolf Weidner:
Here is my take on the folding sequence:
https://thetavin.norma.uberspace.de/own/index.php/s/2G2qWVjU92N8KkK
Is this the traditional folding method?
dear Wolf,
Thanks for your interest on this subject, which research I enjoyed
during many years.
This model was created by the german painter and teacher Adolf Senff
(Halle 1785 - Ostrau bei Halle 1863) in Dresden (Germany) through 1810
and 1812. As far as we know, his creation is the oldest model which we
know the name of the creator.
The model is folded with two sheets of paper: one for the horse, the
other one for the rider. To develop his creation, Senff took by both
parts the base of the traditional model called by him "Krähe" (crow).
Because this crow was played as a horse in napoleonic wars by his pupils
Wilhelm and Gerhard von Kügelgen, as well as Alfred and Julius
Volksmann, it incentived the folding developement of Senff.
We have enough evidences to belive that ca. 1840 his pupil Wilhelm von
Kügelgen (St. Petersburg 1802 - 1867 Ballenstedt) teached again to his
own children this model with some light variations. Von Kügelgen write
1860 the memories describing his learning by Senff. After his death,
were published his memories under the name „Jugenderinnerungen eines
alten Mannes“ (Berlin: Philipp von Nathusius, 1870).
An original collection of 33 pieces of horses and riders that correspond
to Adolf Senff time and characteristics was 1898 acquired by the
Germanisches National Museum in Nürnberg (Germany) from a militar privat
owner.
Since 1910 Lili Droetscher (1871-1944), the president of the
Pestalozzi-Fröbel Association in Berlin, edited the book "Allerlei
Papierarbeiten" (Leipzig, Berlin: Teubner) by the authors Hildegard von
Gierke and Alice Davidsohn. First in the 2nd edition of 1912 present the
oldest folding instructions of this models and the relation through
Adolf Senff, the memories of Kügelgen and the folded objects in the
Germanisches National Museum in Nürnberg. She gave to this model the
german name "Ross und Reiter", which we call it today.
After Droetschers edition, this model was published in dutzens of german
folding books under a lot of different names and folding interpretations
that try to follow the original models conserved in the Germanisches
National Museum. From all the interpretations, only Georg Netzband
(1900-1984) publish this model historicaly correct folded, corresponding
to the originals from the Museum in Nürnberg. It was in his booklet
"Beihefte und Bescheinigung der Anerkennung für den Unterrichtsfilm
F57/1936. Faltarbeiten aus Papier II." (Berlin: Reichsstelle für den
Unterrichtsfilm, 1936). In the same year, Netzband filmed the folding of
this model in a didactic film "Faltarbeiten aus Papier II" for german
schools.
Another original collection of 6 horses and 6 riders that correspond to
Wilhelm von Kügelgen time was acquired 1993 by the Saxon Folk Museum in
Dresden from a privat owner.
2012 was possible to organize in the Norddeutsche Spielzeugmuseum in
Soltau (Germany) an historical exhibition celebrating the 200 years of
the creation of model by Adolf Senff, as well as the 100 years of the
publication of his folding instructions by Lili Droetscher.
In your folding instructions „Horse – German Ross from Ross und Reiter“,
the horse correspond to the model of the mentioned variation by Wilhelm
von Kügelgen ca. 1840, and conserved in the Saxon Folk Museum in
Dresden. The folding way that you show is correct, although the front
legs look at the last step a little short. I propose you to change your
mention as traditional design. Probably we will never know who created
the fortune teller, but not allways an old historical model must be
traditional anonymous model.
Joan Sallas
