Antique 101 year old Harry And Angela Nolden Handmade Cutouts!!!!

Harry & Angela Nolden (Köln, Germany)

Two By Harry Signed, One by his daughter also Signed, Circa 1919

16.3 cm x 21.3 cm excl border
25 cm x 29 cm incl border.

In great condition, considering they are over 101 years old!!

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Father and daughter, the makers of silhouette postcards, in Koln (Cologne) Germany. Angela Nolden (1900-1983) was the daughter of Heinrich Harry Nolden (1876-1941), a German silhouettist who had formerly worked in the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He was a soldier serving in the trenches during World War One and cut silhouette portraits of his comrades and depicted the action around him to pass the time. A series of published postcards [Humor in the trenches] was based on his scissor-cut silhouettes. Together with his daughter Angela, and Harry created silhouettes during the war and the occupation period and the Occupation period immediately afterwards, working in the Officers Casino and other entertainment establishments in Cologne. Signed examples of Angelas work are noted from the period 1915-1919. Cutting silhouettes was a family tradition and an art already practiced by the previous generations - Joseph Nolden (1807-1892), and his son Arnold Nolden (1838-1908), who was a printer and typesetter by trade.