Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus. The color photo from 1956 by Maria Elisabeth (Ria) Liegel-Seitz (1903-1993) shows a nativity scene. She herself sculpted the nativity figures out of wax in 1928 and dressed some of them in oriental-style garments she had sewn herself. The figures include the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, 2 shepherds, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, two angels, an ox and donkey, a camel and 4 sheep. The figures were originally arranged in and in front of a simple open stable, the roof of which was covered with straw. In 1956, the nativity scene took center stage in a Christmas arrangement specially composed by Ria Liegel-Seitz. The Christmas tree, lavishly decorated and adorned with beeswax candles, recedes into the background
Powered by WPeMatico
DE 
EN