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Count Franz Pocci

German artist

Died when: 69 years 21 days (828 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Count Franz Pocci

Count Franz Graf von Pocci (7 March 1807 – 7 May 1876) was a significant official in the court of King Ludwig the First of Bavaria, best known as the founding director of the Munich Marionette Theatre where he was a shadow puppeteer and wrote countless puppet plays and children's stories.

Pocci, in collaboration with , founded the Munich Marionette Theatre in Munich, Bavaria, Germany in 1855.He hired the premises, drew stage curtains and designs, and wrote pieces for the hero of Schmid's shows, Kasperl Larifari, a descendant of Hans Wurst and all the classical comic figures in traditional European puppetry.

This collaboration was highly influential and is credited with inspiring the formation of other theaters, most notably the under Anton Aicher in 1913 in Salzburg, Bavaria, and the .


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