6. Late RAVI-Kunst
5. June 2020
RAVI-Kunst was a 1940ies to 1960ies manufacturer of German Wall Figures located in Hamburg, in the north of Germany. The artist’s name was Lisa Viertel – she designed all the wood pictures and jumping jacks. Besides the Wall Plaques there were also very lovely jumping jack items being produced in not more than two decades. Ravi-Kunst came up with many motives that you do not find among Hellerkunst or Mertens Kunst items, for example a weather prophet dwarf with a huge toadstool hat. RAVI-Kunst produced from 1941 to 1967. On this page you’ll find the products from Lisa Viertel’s early designs without the white paper stripe with the title on the back. Many of them also don’t have the stamp with the juggling dwarf on the back anymore.
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. (Pull Figure Zug Figur Antique Toy Antik Spielzeug Polka Dots Cute Niedlich)
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. (Pull Toy German Wall Figure Rogue Kinderzimmer Deko Junge Decor Boy)
Hand-painted on plywood. 24 cm height. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Hans Christian Anderesen Märchen Holz Bild Wand...
Hand-painted on plywood. Height: 22 cm. (Vintage Nursery Decor Brothers Grimm Princess Girl Crown Mädchen Prinzessin Krone)
Hand-painted on wood with varnish. Solid thick colors, that's what I love about Ravi-Kunst! One of the Cinderella series with...
Hand-painted on plywood. The large eyes became popular from the 1960s onwards. Unfortunately, RAVI-Kunst did not make it into the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Heigt: 13cm. This is a part of a RAVI-Kunst key hanger.
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. I love Lisa Viertel's layer look. You can tell she was a tailor, too!
Hand-painted on plywood, 26cm. This wood figure reminds of happy girls in the fifties or sixties. The war years were...
The name RA-VI comes from the surnames of the founder ladies: Erna Rath and Lisa Viertel. Lisa Viertel was the...
Hand-painted on plywood. This wall figure belongs to the „cute animals“ - many manufacturers produced some of those. Look at...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. Usually Ravi used 3mm-plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood. Again the red brick stones, adding to the vivid color scheme. This wood picture was meant for...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Red, yellow and light blue are a pretty color scheme, add the fresh green and you have...
Hand-painted on plywood. Once again, the red brick stones, adding some color to this Mother Holle design. You also find...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. What I like about RAVI-Kunst is that they sometimes show unusual details or scenes of the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Height: 23 cm. Look at Gretel's colors: They are bright yet soft. I like that and the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Height: 25 cm.
Hand-painted on plywood. This is not the only RAVI-Kunst Snow White! I have seen about 10 different versions so far.
Hand-painted on 3mmm-plywood with lots of varnish. This is rather early Ravi-Kunst. You can see the juggling dwarf on the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-quality-plywood. The huge scissors are perfectly painted! Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale, KHM 20.
Hand-painted on plywood. The classic Struwwelpeter in Ravi-Kunst style. (Shock Headed Peter // Heinrich Hoffmann).
Hand-painted on plywood. There are a couple of wall figures of the Struwwelpeter himself, but rarely any of the other...
Hand-painted on plywood. You do not really see it here, but this is a rather large wood picture by Ravi-Kunst.
Hand-painted on plywood. You can divide the motives of the children's wood pictures era in "fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's...
Hand-pained on 3mm-plywood. ("Ravi-Kunst Handgemalt Hamburg" / Only one stamp, no paper stripe)
Hand-painted on 3mmm-plywood. Polka dot accessories became popular from the 1950s, especially those with fly agaric mushroom colors like this...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is a beautiful light blue / dark blue color scheme, completed with Cinderella's blond hair. The...
Hand-painted on plywood. In the 1960s childlike facial features appeared on many fairy tale wood pictures. That meant a bigger...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Everything by Ravi-Kunst was handmade in Germany.
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the great success wall figures were the red-blue goose girls. First with, later without base....
Again the larger heads starting from the 1960s (childlike facial features, called Kindchenschema in Germany, and yes, it is a...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. From the 1960s onwards there was a tendency to show the faces on fairy tale wood...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. There are two pinetree girls by Ravi: One with a flower, one with a bunny. They are...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is a very unique identifier: I only know of one Little Red Riding Hood in Holland...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. ("M/6 Sterntaler star-thaler" / Stamp only)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. (The Wishing Table)
Hand-painted on wood with thick colors and much varnish. The title „Wichtelmaennchen“ means a cute dwarf, but this cute dwarf...