{"id":56404,"date":"2013-12-06T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=56404"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T14:29:46","slug":"stadsmuseum-marionettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=56404","title":{"rendered":"The Puppet Whisperer — Michael Meschke & his Marionettes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled upon Michael Meschke by surprise, wonderfully so, and when I read that Meschke’s work was on display at the Stadsmuseum, it was a very pleasant surprise. Meschke’s puppets are haunting and full of character; I can’t even find the words to accurately describe them or the man behind their personalities.<\/p>\n

There’s not much information on the Internet about the man. But there doesn’t need to be… simply explore his work and you’ll learn all you need to know: soulful, intelligent, insightful, gentle, and artistic.<\/a> He’s a puppet whisperer.<\/p>\n

Meschke is much loved in Stockholm… so much so that he was able to build his own popular marionette theatre; and now, seventy of his puppets are on temporary display at the Stadsmuseum<\/a> until January 2014.<\/p>\n

I have to say that out of all the things I discovered in Stockholm, I REALLY enjoyed photographing the Meschke Marionettes.<\/p>\n