9. Other Manufacturers
5. June 2020
Here you’ll find those producers of German Wall Figure that were not mentioned before, from the 1920s to the 1960.
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Brotders Grimm Huge Scissors Old Children's Books Illustrator? (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hand-painted on plywood. Does anyone know more about this manufacturer? Look at that great motive! Was it Mr.Heye himself who...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Rare Manufacturer Dwarf Marching Band Fun Medieval Shoes. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hand-painted on plywood. Ilse Schneider was the owner and designer of Eifelkunst. Details: Lantern Gnome Bare Knees Naked Legs Beard...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Hans Christian Andersen Danish Denmark Rare Story Matches Poor Child Sad eeeee
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Fun Fair Little Ballon Seller Child Endearing Rarity (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Brothers Grimm Wine Bottle Wolf Flower-Hand (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Beautiful Blue Dress Red Head Scarf Meadow Base (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Mini Figurine Brothers Grimm Goose Child Boy Blond Running (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Long Blond Hair Maid Geese Light Blue Apron Cute (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Child Boy Large Shoes Meadow Base Cute Short Trousers (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Screen-printed on plywood. Details: Child Shy Girl Blond Blue Dress Brothers Grimm (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Manufacturer Doe Fawn Girl Braids Brothers Grimm Fly Agaric Mushrooms Toadstools (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Crown Mini Figure Great Colors Like New Brunette Beautiful Golden Toy Fine Features (Fairy Tale Wood...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Mary Jane Shoes Frightened White Collar Short Trousers Shorts Grass Base (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Mother Goose Endearing Brothers Grimm Grass Backback Art Deco (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
The TV-Series "Young Sheldon" has made the boy's bow tie popular again. Who would have thought that? (German Wall Figure...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Brothers Grimm Holland Netherlands Apron Yellow Red Color Scheme (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Details: Pretty Girl Light Blue Dress Polka Collar Dots (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork...
Details: Theodor Storm Night Pram Rolls Cute Nervous Child Restless Adventure ADHD (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
17 cm height. I love this sign post idea pointing "to happiness" (ins Glueck). And I love it that in...
Details: Brothers Grimm Apple Basket German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Decoration Plywood Vintage Nursery Decor...
Details: Clown Harlequin Pompom Hat Frilly Collar German Wall Figure Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Decoration Plywood Vintage Nursery Decor...
Details: Clown Harleqin Tunic Hamburg Art Lisa Viertel Erna Rath (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Details: Cheeky Saw Mary Jane Shoes Wilhelm Busch (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
Details: Stocking Cap Glasses Blue Eyes Garden Hamburg (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
Height: 24 cm. Details: Hamburg Watering Can Boy Rarity Yellow. Hat Toy Brand HH German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Picture...
Details: Endearing Sailor Collar Outfit Hat Shirt Hamburg (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
This is a wall figure of the Arnheim Collection. A German soldier father had signed these wall figures and sent...
IS IT an easter egg? What do you think? And does anyone know how Griah-Kunst and Kleur & Profiel came...
You can divide the motives of the children's wood pictures era in "fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's like WALMART with...
Hand-painted on plywood. The bellflower dress - what a lovely idea. But does the dwarf actually offer a poisonous fly...
Hand-painted on plywood. No size zero here! And so beautiful! Details: Checkered Skirt Long Braid Barefoot Black Bodice Art Deco...
Hand-painted on wood. Thickness: 0,5-1 cm. Attributes: Bavarian Boy, Feather Hat, Child, Pink Princess, Flower Dwarf, Ilse Schneider (German Wall...
Hand-painted on wood. Height: 18-20 cm. // Thickness: 0,5-1 cm. Attributes: Bavarian Boy, Feather Hat, Child, Pink Princess, Flower Dwarf,...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 20cm. Engaging details: The raised dove hand, the orange shoes. The dove's head is missing - time...
Look at the moon figure in the middle, it’s Little Peter’s Journey to the Moon. Then enter „Ilse Schneider Moon“...
Ilse Schneider wrote and illustrated books about dwarfs and fairies. Many of her motives gave inspiration for wood hangings. This...
Hand-painted on plywood. The Star Money girl holding one star in her hands, that was a beloved motive back then....
This hand-painted wall figure was produced near the Baltic Sea, in Niendorf. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
qHand-painted on plywood. This is one of my favorites! I've known this figure with brown and with blue hoodie.
Details: Raised Loved Art Deco Beautiful Woman Sandals Dress Meadow Base (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique...
Hand-painted on plywood. He makes you smile, doesn't he? Ilse Schneider again having an idea of her own. She had...
Hand-painted on plywood. Zaandijk is a city in the Netherlands. So far I have known motives of children, dwarfs and...
Hand-painted on plywood. Gandalf planning his next moves, this is who this wall figure reminds me of. He even has...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood, 20 cm height. This motive was copied a lot in later decades, with some minor changes.
Hand-painted on almost 0,8 cm thick wood, that is very unusual for German Wall Figures, normally the wood is 0,3...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Old Shabby Chic Vintage Nursery)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Ilse Schneider used to work for Magda and Georg Heller in the early 1930s. Later she had...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Very unusual: A Frog King Pincess and you can't see her face.
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the puffy sleeves, the bloated skirt and the goose’s belly. There is something wonderfully round...
Hand-painted on plywood. Ilse Schneider had formerly worked for Hellerkunst. Then she started her own manufactory. Thank God, because there...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A wonderful wall figure, one of my favorites. Look at the color scheme, too! Art Deco. (German...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. In spite of the foreboding 1930s: Ilse Schneider's wall figures almost always came in bright colors, in...
Hand-painted on plywood. You can almost hear the children debating, Gretel being frightened and asking her big brother for help....
Hand-painted on plywood. These mothers madonnas were very popular in the first part of the 20th century.
Hand-painted on plywood. Many of the early wooden wall figures told little stories: Try and describe all the details of...
Hand-painted on plywood. Many of the first wooden wall figures were very fragile. The part with the fretwork art was...
Hand-painted on plywood. Again an Ilse Schneider design of her own, not resembling any of the Hellerkunst motives of her...
Hand-painted on plywood. The motive is a girl playing the „He loves me he loves me not“ petal game. The...
Hand-painted on plywood. There are only two main colors and only three basic objects here: Cap, nightshirt and moon. And...
Hand-painted on plywood. Again a proof that Ilse Schneider, after having worked for Hellerkunst for several years, developed a style...
Hand-painted on very thin plywood. This Diorama belonged to a Toy Museum in the Black Forest. It had been in...
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the movement in the wall figure, the striding pied piper, the running rats, even his...
Hand-painted on plywood. The Rumplestiltskins of the 1960s and 1970s were rather cute - this one shows that he is...
Hand-painted on plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood. Wrangel had two styles, one with delicate lines and the one with rather crude lines. (German Wall...
Hand-painted on plywood. Star Money Girl or Mother Holles Golden Daughter? Wrangel did at least two Star Money motives, and...
Hand-painted on plywood. This Diorama belonged to a Toy Museum in the Black Forest. It had been in the exhibition...
Hand-painted on plywood. The Twenties are here again, only in a new century. Were the 1920s really golden and happy?...
Hand-painted on plywood. Wonderful haptics with luminous layers of color! (Till Eulenspiegel)
Hand-painted on plywood. Someone must have been protecting this wall figure all these years. Unfortunately, many parents threw wall figures...
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the princess’s short jacket: The long sleeves with the yellow silk lining, then the earrings...
Hand-painted on plywood. The color scheme is so so beautiful, using different shades of blue. "The Wild Swans" is a...
Hand-painted on plywood. A very unusual style, and very old, too!
Hand-painted on plywood. The red scarfs and the hidden young goats are beautiful details on this wall figure. The color...
Hand-painted on plywood. In the fairy tale, Little Thumb steals the Shoes off the ogre to save his six brothers....
Hand-painted on plywood. An unusual motive. You will hardly come across a Wall Figure showing this mountain spirit.
Hand-painted on plywood. Unique identifier: The torn out mushroom along with its root. (Fly Agaric)
Hand-painted on plywood. Maybe the Gerheina motives were not supposed to be for nursery decoration, they are dwarfs and rather...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have only known very simple designs of this producer so far. This is a highlight. What...
Hand-painted on plywood. Ilse Schneider had first worked for Hellerkunst and then started to design her own wall figures. All...
Hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. This wall figure seems to belong to the "Zwergen-Beschützer" which means "Dwarf Protector".
Hand-painted on plywood, 19cm. This one is actually called Zwergenbeschützer = Dwarf Protector. All Gerheina Dwarfs have an unusual green-black...
Hand-painted on plywood. A very unusual motive for book lovers: This dwarf is holding a stack of books and he’s...
Hand-painted on plywood. On the back is the word „Holland“ in red stamp ink. The Dutch producers I have known...
Handgemalt auf Schichtholz, 18cm. I wonder how many Gerheina dwarfs I'm yet to discover! So far I've known 5 different...
Hand-painted on plywood, 13cm. The ladybug is tiny - ohne of the dwarfs is stroking him.
Hand-painted on plywood, 25cm. It might be overpainted, I am not sure about that.
Hand-painted on plywood, 30cm. An early Ilse Schneider item, beautiful color scheme: Two Shades of Light Blue.
Hand-painted on unusually light 3mm-plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood. Height: 13 cm. Hilla has a style of their own. On this Cinderella wall figure the thin...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood, 23cm. I like the thorn tree, you hardly see it on fairy tale wood pictures. And look...
Hand-painted on plywood. A fascinating first impression with strange faces - Hansel’s nose resembles that of Pinocchio while Gretel’s face...
Hand-painted on plywood. The back of this motive says "Holland".
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood. Thick layers of paint and varnish and unusually thick wood. The edges are painted, too. Original Bergischer...
Hand-painted on 2,5mm plywood. This German wood picture lived along with a second one in the USA for roughly 60...
Hand-painted on plywood, 20cm. I love the Hilla quality: Thick paint, thick varnish-layer and 5mm-wood. Haptic joy, to feel the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Once again Hilla's great quality: Thick wood, thick paint layers, thick layer of varnish.
You'll always find fairy tale themed adults on wood pictures, but rarely other grown-ups. Here we have one of the...
This is a cute and funny little school girl with her braids and thick socks and the large bag. Hand-painted...
The Sutterlin script could be translated like this: "If your love live faces night, go embrace a lantern light." (German...
You can actually feel the paint layers and the unusually thick wood, 0,6cm. It's a wood haptics experience. Some of...
Hand-painted on plywood. He looks relaxed though, walking proudly with hands in his pocket. Maybe he's thinking: Anything but school!...
Hand-painted on plywood. "True friendship is a plant of slow growth." George Washington is supposed to have said that. Hiking...
A haptic joy, like all Hilla wall figures: Hand-painted on wood, thick layers of paint and varnish. This rat catcher...
Hand-painted on plywood. The Hilla faces are always a bit crumpled, but the haptics are so great: Thick paint and...
Many wolfs on wood pictures looked more threatening just before and during the 2nd World War. Also, good material got...
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood. An expert's work. ("8,45" -- )
I have known this wood picture for only a short while. Almost all Brave Little Tailors got the scissors, but...
Hand-painted on 2,5mm plywood. With the mean dwarf, who never thanks the lovely girl for their help but keeps complaining...
During the war years, most of the faces were solemn, but I know many earnest Ilse Schneider wall figure faces...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 22cm. Chrijo Mueller produced in Hannoversch Muenden.
I think this fairy tale wood picture was produced earlier that 1946. 1946 was the year it was given as...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood, 16cm. I love the thick golden paint of the harp.
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rare. I am not absolutely sure it is Kleur & Profiel, it might also...
I am not sure about the producer, but enter „Kleur & Profiel“ in the search! Don’t you think, it’s the...
A beautiful birthday present - that is what I imagine this design to have been back then. Bright colors, a...
This is a touching hand-painted motive: It always makes me think of the many people who fled from Germany during...
Hand-painted on plywood. (With date // Given as a Christmas Present in 1944)
Hand-painted on plywood. This is one of my all times favourite wood figure. I took roughly 30 pictures to finally...
Hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. This wood picture was made in Holland. I love the delicate face, the pretty details of...
This is typical Jan Snelten, the big head and the carved mouth. "Jan Snelten (1909–1976) was the director of nursery...
Hand-painted on plywood. "Jan Snelten (1909–1976) was the director of nursery decoration 'Kleur en Profiel' (Colour and Profile) in Tiel,...
Hand-painted on plywood. You can divide the wood pictures roughly in two categories: "Fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's like Walmart...
Hand-painted on plywood. One of my Kleur en Profiel favorites. Jan Snelten, the artist, made her look so so happy!...
There are only few fairy tale motives by Kleur en Profiel. The Dutch artist Jan Snelten (1909-1976) had his very...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish.