The Nutcracker story was written by E.T. A. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann of Koenigsberg, Prussia. |
The Nutcracker story was written by E.T.A. Hoffmann of Koenigsberg, Prussia. |
The carving of nutcrackers as well as religious figures and cribs? developed as a cpottage industry in forested rural areas of Germany. The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg, Thuringia, also a center of doll making, and from the Erzgebirge?. Wood carving was usually the only income |
The carving of nutcrackers as well as religious figures and cribs? developed as a cottage industry in forested rural areas of Germany. The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg, Thuringia, also a center of doll making, and from the Erzgebirge?. Wood carving was usually the only income |