Eight year old girl working with the colour tablets, Montessori class, Berlin-Tegel, 1947. The normal age at which children choose this activity is four or five. The war was on when this girl was that age; she and other children who suffered the same fate worked for weeks with the colours - T. Müller, R. Schneider, Lehrmaterialien 1913-1935. Möbel und Architektur. Techning Meterials 1913-1935. Furniture and Architecture, München, Prestel Verlag, 2002, p.92

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