Teschner’s Musket

Illustrations by Richard Teschner for the December 1923 issue of Die Muskete This is my third post on Teschner. From the first one: Richard Teschner (1879, Bohemia—1948, Vienna) made prints and illustrated books in turn-of-the-century Prague, hanging out with writers like Meyrink and Paul Leppin and exhibiting with Hugo Steiner-Prag. He finally settled in Vienna and devoted himself to the puppet theater. Brittanica says he "developed the artistic potentialities of the Javanese rod puppet for western puppet theatre." I'll keep digging! (For instance, someone needs to comb through this archive of his puppets.) [update: some photos of Teschner's puppets here.] You can read the text of this issue (in German) at the Austrian National Library. detailcropped from the cover Previously: Etchings of a Puppeteer Master of Puppet Masters Franz Wacik This post first appeared on January 31, 2014 on 50 Watts