ADVENT CALENDAR 2024

December 17

MAX SCHANZ NATIVITY PYRAMID

Max Schanz/Volker and Heiko Flath
Seiffen, Germany
Painted wood
2014

This collapsible Christmas pyramid (Weihnachtspyramide) was reissued from its original 1940s design by Volker and Heiko Flath, toymakers from Seiffen, Germany. Designed by Max Schanz (1895–1953), a professor at the local toymaking school, the pyramid was made by apprentices during the later years of World War II. It could be disassembled into parts and shipped in a small box as a Christmas greeting for soldiers from Seiffen. Guenther Flath (b. 1932) of Volker and Heiko Flath was a former student of Schanz.

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