Her Life
She studied at the Bauhaus from 1922 and worked in the woodworking workshop. She married fellow student Werner Buscher. She died in Bavaria in 1944.
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
1899–1944 · Studied at the Bauhaus from 1922
Toys and Wood
In one sentence
She designed toys and children's furniture that treated play as serious design.
Her Work
Her Bauhaus Ship-Building Game (Kleines Schiffbauspiel, 1923) is a set of brightly coloured wooden blocks that children can build into countless forms. She also designed the children's room for the 1923 Haus am Horn, with child-sized furniture and storage that doubled as play objects.
Why she was overlooked
Toys and children's design were classified as minor, even though her work reflected core Bauhaus ideas about primary colours, basic forms and learning by making.
Her Legacy Today
A version of her ship-building game is still produced today, a rare Bauhaus design that kept its original purpose.
- Kleines Schiffbauspiel (1923)
- Children's room, Haus am Horn (1923)
Her work in pictures
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Try this
Ship-building game
Click to place a wooden block; click again to remove. Build a ship or a house.