![Man at the stove, an eternal struggle?](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-2-300x204.jpg)
A man at the stove
What images of a man’s role were disseminated in Switzerland’s mainstream visual media in the 1950s? After World War II ended, people were looking for alternatives to the traditional image of the family man, and a lot of men found themselves standing at the kitchen stove.
Average man – great cook
![Average man – great cook, special edition on home economics, cover illustration by Donald Brun, December 1950.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/mann-am-herd-227x300.jpg)
Self-sufficient provider on his island
![The original househusband: Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Walter Paget, 1896.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/mannamherdtitel-300x225.jpg)
![Robinson Crusoe from a Silva Verlag collector’s scrapbook, 1951.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/crusoe-237x300.jpg)
A doll’s house
![Model of a kitchen at the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Work, 1958.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/saffa-300x235.jpg)