Umbrella dog, black forest work. These pieces of furniture and carved wooden objects come from the Brienz region of Switzerland.
The Swiss poet Heinrich Federer also classifies them as local curiosities, along with the Giessbach waterfalls and the tasty grilled eels, another regional specialty. No tourist worthy of the name could, in the 19th century, leave these mountain pastures without taking one of these trinkets with them in their luggage. Made as dilettantes by the locals in the evening by the fire, they were at the center of a lucrative trade in the 19th century. The story begins with the famine of 1817. To find other sources of income,…
19th century
Switzerland
Height: 83 cm
