Magda Mautner von Markhof. Kalenderbilderbuch (Calendar picture book). 1905
Design for children in the early twentieth-century was generally not seen as profitable or high status, but for many women like Magda Mautner von Markoff, it was a new and important field. At the time, as suggested by the design critic Amelia Levetus in an article about Viennese toys, women were felt to “better understand child nature than men; they are nearer to them in thought, and sympathise with them in a way that men rarely do.”
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