Saturday, April 21, 2012

Czechoslovakian Circus

unknown.008 by bucklesw1
unknown.008, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Posted by Buckles at 4/21/2012 05:40:00 AM

3 comments:

DanKoehl said...

I wonder from which year this picture is...

The only circus in Czech Republic which to my knowledge had bulls, was KLudsky. But they went bankrupt in 1934, before color photos.

Made a Kludsky summary here: http://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=311&show=1

Any more info on this picture?

21 April, 2012 16:38
Chic Silber said...

When I was in Prague about 2 years

ago I visited the desperate show

lot of Cirkus Andres on a day that

they had cancelled the performance

The whole shebang was pathetic but

I think they had an elephant as

well as several horses & a couple

of Bactrian camels (for rides)

The few folks I spoke with there

although very friendly were not

very fluent in English so I'm not

sure that I learned much & I had

to get back to Hamburg to work on

the Disney "Tarzan" so I couldn't

see their show another day

21 April, 2012 17:40
DanKoehl said...

A wild guess, is that this is Kludskys bull Bosco, but after 1935 with the new color picture technic, and then he was not anymore with Kludsky, but with Circus Barlay. May it be that the text "Czechoslovakian Circus" refer o where he came from?
OR, the color techich was already enough for the picture in 1934...?

On the page http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3648 I have a similair picture, but in black and white, with Bosco doing one hand stand. The bull on this picture seems to be somewhat larger then on your color photo.

Bosco was, after the bankrupt, sold from Circus Kludsky via Ruhe, to Reinhold Kwasnik (artist name: Harry Barlay), and his trainer Erwin Bauer came with him. 1953 Bosco attacked Erwin Bauer on tour in Augsburg.

21 April, 2012 17:53

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