Arc-en-Ciel

Arc-en-Ciel, Hungarian puppet theatre in Paris from 1929 until 1940 under the leadership of the painter and puppeteer Géza Blattner (1893–1967). In 1919 Blattner, together with photographer Rónai Dénes, founded a wayang (“shadow”) puppet theatre in Budapest. Blattner then went to Paris in 1925 and by 1928 had formed a company comprising some 40 Hungarian artists. The company made its debut at the International Puppet Congress of Paris in 1929. The decorative avant-garde style of...