Silvia Natterer
Silvia was offered her first play doll in 1952. It was a Schildkröt celluloid doll with moulded hair and painted eyes. Later, as a mother she admired the Sasha Morgenthaler dolls for their clearness of design and convincing functionality as a good play doll.
Before designing collectible dolls herself, she was fascinated by thread puppets and theatre performances with puppets. Silvia was a member of the puppet theatre "Kleines Spiel" in Munich for years.
During this time she made many puppets in wood composition, as well as resin, which were also for sale. When she saw the dolls of the swiss artist Elfriede Schwarzenbach, she cut the threads of her puppets and made dolls for children and collectors.
In 1979, she met Hanne Adler-Kruse, the daughter and successor of the famous doll designer Käthe Kruse, quite by chance. They became friends and some years later Silvia designed two dolls for the Käthe Kruse company.
Around the same time, she met the talented doll artist Elisabeth Pongratz in Munich. They shared their experiences in doll making for many years and ran a doll shop together.
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