Welcome to the Online Museum of German Wall Figures!
These Fairy Tale Wood Pictures or Wall Figures are a cornucopia of beauty and of history. They are all made of wood. They are all from the 20th century. Many are hand-painted. With this Online-Museum I want to create something beautiful. So, if you love vintage art, take a close look and enjoy, maybe remember, too!
Don’t forget to take a close look at the menu on top: There you will find about 1000 different wood pictures! On this home page you will find much additional knowledge about Fairy Tale Wood Pictures.
M i s s i o n S t a t e m e n t: “The era of German Wall Figures (1930s to 1970s) has almost been forgotten, even in Germany, where 99% of the Fairy Tale Wood Pictures were produced. I am working on preserving the beauty of this era on the World Wide Web.
Christiane Dietz
Here you find all pictures of this website (more than 1000). The newest ones always appear on top!
Here you'll find the Hellerkunst wall figures from late 1920s until the early 1950s.
Here you'll find the later Hellerkunst wood pictures from the 1950s onwards.
Here you'll find the Mertens-Kunst wood pictures from the 1930s until the early 1950s.
Here you'll find the Mertens-Kunst wood pictures from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
RAVI-Kunst was a 1940ies to 1970ies manufacturer of German Wall Figures located in Hamburg, in the north of Germany. Besides...
RAVI-Kunst was a 1940ies to 1970ies manufacturer of German Wall Figures located in Hamburg, in the north of Germany. Besides...
Muenchner-Kunst produced from the 1930s to the 1960s. The manufacturer Original Bergischer Engel produced from the 1940s to 1960s.
Here you'll find those producers of German Wall Figure that were not mentioned before, from the 1920s to the 1960.
The German Democratic Republic existed from 1949-1990. It was also called East Germany at that time. They produced a lot...
I don't know the name of the producers here. Who can help? Please klick on "Contact" in the menu!
Hobby-Art / at home craft applies to the thousands of boys and girls and sometimes their parents, too, who produced...
Here you'll find German fretwork craft templates and wood pictures by Dullien, MK-Hobby and Pebaro. Pebaro does still exist (www.pebaro.de)...
Here you'll more fretwork like Vobach, Hartmann, Signo and others. They all provided paper or plywood templates for craft lovers....
My Ebay Shop is called maerchenholzbilder. That’s the German word for Fairy Tale Wood Pictures. You’ll see all hundreds of...
Just after the Second World War Hedi Duell had to earn money to support her two little sons Willi and...
Left: The original version by Mertens-Kunst (1940s). Right: The copy by Edelholz Freiberg, GDR (1950s) (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hundreds of children learned reading the time with it. It hang for many centuries in the Kindergarten Koeln Ehrenfeld. Details:...
Top left: 1930s unknown producer, hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Top left: Late 1940s Mertens-Kunst, hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Bottom left: Early 1970er...
Top left: 1930s Hellerkunst, hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Top right: Early 1940s unknown producer, hand-painted on plywood. Bottom left: 1960s Graupner...
These wood pictures belong to the Arnheim (Netherlands) Collection a German soldier sent to his children back home in 1942....
Knowing the currency of vintage pricing in the USA is easy, because the USA has always had the dollar. Germany...
Most of these wall figures are Hellerkunst, 4 are by other producers. Sorry about the missing translation, but this is...
There is much paint wear so we can see the pencil lines. Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
"For my Reiner over his nursery bed from your granny." [sic] That's the translation, and yes, there really are three...
A typical question about wall figures is: "What do you do with them?" Well, it’s in the name, you just...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish. It is most likely a copy of the original Hellerkunst Fairy on a Leaf. Only...
The fine face features, the hair style, the yellow bodice with the wide dot dress - this is one of...
Hobby Fretwork Craft after the Hellerkunst original which was designed 20 years earlier.