German Hand-painted Wooden Cutout Couple in Traditional Costumes folk art horse pull toy the more I admire it

the more I admire it

a man playing a horn

arguing for the responsiveness of modern architecture

who travelled to the Canadian Arctic with Icelandic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962)

Paper size: 6" x 9"

German Hand-painted Wooden Cutout Couple in Traditional Costumes folk art horse pull toy the more I admire itI must say I find this unusual old pair of German cutout wooden figures quite compelling, and also problematic, which is I think in large part what makes them compelling. His very particular posture seems a pure embodiment of lustfulness, amplified (and made rather ridiculous to a modern eye) by his traditional lederhosen, while her serious expression complicates the gesture of her raising the skirt corner of her dirndl (in the other direction) making