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Ivo Puhonny (19 July 1876 – 6 February 1940) was a German
Ivo Puhonny marionette collection
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Puhonny, Ivo German puppeteers People from Baden-Baden 1876 births 1940 deaths German graphic designers Artists from Bavaria
Ivo Puhonny (19 July 1876 – 6 February 1940) was a German graphic artist
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...
and puppeteer
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, called a puppet, to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from ...
, son of the landscape painter Victor Puhonny. Puhonny is primarily known for his advertising art in the Sachplakat style, and for founding the Baden-Baden Puppet Theater in 1911.
Life and work
Graphics
Puhonny studied at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and was influenced by the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Involved in the poster art movement of the early 20th century, Puhonny created advertisements for products such as margarine (for Schlinck & Co.) and cigarettes (Batschari
The Zigarettenfabrik A. Batschari was a German cigar and cigarette manufacturer established in 1834 in Baden-Baden by August Batscharis. Along with other cigarette manufacturers of the period like Josef Garbáty and Manoli, Batschari was at the ...
). He also illustrated books and created etchings and lithographs. His graphics work is preserved in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg and the Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...
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Puppetry
In 1911 he founded the ''Baden-Baden Künstler-Marionettentheater'', dedicated to puppet performances.Sachs, p. 27 Puhonny and his wife carved and clothed the puppets and designed the stages for the plays. The theatre was based in Baden-Baden during the winter, and went on tour during the summers. Many of his puppet dolls are displayed in the collection of the Munich City Archives and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.Personal life
Puhonny married his school sweetheart Lisa, with whom he had two daughters, Eva and Doris. His home in Baden-Baden was a gathering place for important artists of the time, including Else Lasker-Schüler, Otto Flake, Klabund andCarl Sternheim
Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emergi ...
. Puhonny was prone to depression because of his experiences during World War I, and the emergence of Nazism affected him due to his foreign-sounding name and the socially critical nature of his work, which became increasingly sidelined after World War II began. His circle of friends and acquaintances included Jews whose emigration, deportation and suicides exacerbated his depression. Suffering from a nervous disorder, he died at a sanatorium in Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
following a stroke.
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Ivo Puhonny marionette collection
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Puhonny, Ivo German puppeteers People from Baden-Baden 1876 births 1940 deaths German graphic designers Artists from Bavaria