Musée de l'Image Populaire

From the eighteenth century, the Val de Moder was a very active household production of popular images. Lotz Master Francis had assembled a large collection, we could visit his home. Following him, the Museum of the popular image of Pfaffenhoffen [1], created in 1994, describes all aspects and it extends even to the Great Eastern and the Rhine area for technical reasons and distribution channels are common to the whole geographical area. The popular imagery usually evokes images of Epinal or Wissembourg, which were printed and sold in bookstores or by peddling. But the techniques, patterns and practices are so varied that they push to reconsider the term. In the case of images made by hand in one copy, so we prefer to speak of unica. Those images are made to order, and sometimes performed by the user himself. The Museum of Pfaffenhoffen also devotes a large section to the glass painting, produced by a process inverse to ordinary paint ...