GRAUPNER+HOBBY
9. January 2019
Hobby-Art / at home craft applies to the thousands of boys and girls and sometimes their parents, too, who produced their Wall Figures using templates. Especially in the 1950ies to the 1970ies were very successful for Graubele / Graupner, the main producer of fretwork templates. Graubele and Graupner are the same producers, they just changed their name around 1960. Another very successful producer was Pebaro.
HERE YOU WILL FIND AMONG OTHERS: Graupner/Graubele, Pebaro, Dullien, Hobby and Vobach.
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Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Height: 18 cm. (Unknown Producer)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 13cm height.
Google the story and read it. Then look at this wall figure and recognize them: The chair, the Glass Mountain,...
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. It is a beautiful work, look at the details of the well and the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Most likely a copy of the Hellerkunst original, but one of those perfect copies! There's even a...
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. (Graupner / Graubele 5085)
Fretwork template made of plywood. (Graubele 9302). The grey spotted areas had to be removed, that was the fretwork technique....
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. (Graubele / Graupner 5037)
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood with varnish. This is a figure of the Hartmann's People Series called "Gestalten aus dem Volk."
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. She's so beautiful. Look at the knee long hair and the connecting...
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. The first Graupner templates were called "Cannstatter Laubsaege-Arbeiten". Later they changed the name to...
A black frame, that is unusual. Graupner templates came with a color scheme, but I have not seen it for...
This is a template for a key holder. It might be Cannstatter or even earlier, Graupner bought Cannstatter fretwork later...
This booklet has 9 templates for fairy tale fretwork art. They could be ironed onto the plywood. In this booklet,...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. There is much paint wear so we can see the pencil lines.
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. You'll find another smiling Toadstool made by Ravi-Kunst. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5073)
The (great) copy is on the left side, the original by Mertens-Kunst on the right.
Hand-painted on plywood. A very unusual motive on unusual wood: 6mm-plywood, twice as thick as usual! The metal triangle hanger...
A very early fretwork template by Graubele, later called Graupner. There were two fretwork pieces that had to be put...
Hobby craft on plywood using a Graupner template. It's an attractive motive with the surrounding doves. That's what made it...
The grave of Cinderella's mother is important to the fairy tale, but you hardly find it on wall figures. Another...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is one of the rare religious motives on Children’s Wood Figures. I love the light and...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 27cm. A very popular motive at its time. (Graubele Graupner 5040)
This witch is wearing glasses and the base has been worked on twice: Outside and inside! (Graubele)
Hand-painted on plywood. In the first 1812 version of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales collection it's actually a duck carrying...
A great hobby craft on 4mm-qualtiy plywood, 24cm height. (Fretwork) (Graubele)
Look at all the colorful details! I love the big roses, especially the whites lines on them. Hand-painted maybe in...
This calendar holder is VERY vintage! And you also have the old German Suetterin script in the producer's name! (Graubele)
This backside was once planned as the front side. The printed grey dots were supposed to be cut out. The...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 21cm. Great work using the Vorbach template. This wall figure is larger than usual.
He reminds me of the elegance of the early Hellerkunst Rat Catchers. The thorn frame does not really explain itself:...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Many hobby art items have darkened over the decades. It was after...
A hobby craft piece of work, very well done, hand-painted on wood. Many of the first fairy tale wood pictures...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Great work, too. (Graubele Graupner 5004).
Hand-painted by an expert on 4mm-plywood. Look at their faces! The meadow base reminds me of Pebaro, a producer of...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. These paper scraps used to be the color suggestion by the producer....
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. The most wonderful hobby craft I have ever seen, worked after the...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. A very elegant wood picture, he jumps over the village with style,...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish. (Graubele / Graupner 5001).
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. A good idea, to draw Till Eulenspiegel into a mirror-glass. (Calender Holder...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. The fairy tale "The Wishing Table" talks about the fulfillment of three...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 19cm. This Brothers Grimm fairy tale is called „The Wishing-Table“ (KHM 36)...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. Height: 24cm. Somewhat creepy, but it's a rare motive, so I...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Don't fear the rabbit: That's the message of this fairy tale...
It might be a template work by Graupner, but I haven't got proof so far. (Fly Agaric Mushroom / Toadstool)
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner / Graubele 5072)
This is a hobby craft wood picture, maybe worked after a template by Graupner / Graubele that I haven't known...
This is a hobby craft wood picture, maybe worked after a template by Graupner / Graubele that I haven't known...
Look at that cep: It really reminds you of the real one! I’m talking a mushroom your parents back then...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Again one of the Graupner-series I call "funny dwarfs". There is...
The text says: "Merry Chrismas Wishes 1941" (in the middle of the Second World War) and the name seems to...
Hand-painted on plywood. There is a text on the back which translates to: „Merry Christmas 1941". A funny gift for...
Hand-painted on plywood. The Fly Agaric bureau equipment makes you look twice here and also the funnily shaped behind of...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. First mentioned 1940, dated on the back of a wall figures...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. One of my Graupner favorites. I like the huge strawberry...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood.
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 15cm. Unknown producer. (Shock Headed Peter)
The average Cinderella wall figure shows her with a dove, but here we’ve got a whole different scene, the famous...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. This is the scene of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale where...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. You find this version rather often, with many variation of the...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. The frog looks as if he's wearing ear muffs or headphones,...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 26cm. Who would have guessed that old-fashioned knitting would be all...
A rather creepy evil witch, especially because she's touching the boy. And look at the cat, it doesn't look friendly,...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. I have only known of one wall figure depicting Hansel's cage,...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. A frightening witch with frightened children. Look at the children's posture!...
A nice hobby craft wood picture on 4mm-plywood.
A great hobby work, look at all the details! Haenschen Klein is a German Kindergarten Song. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5238).
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5235).
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. A great piece of hobby art. There was a craft template...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and masterly done. It seems incredible what a difference 70 years make - most children...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. I know the Miller's daughter is supposed to be desperate, but...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5324).
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. This is so beautiful! Babyboomers will remember the punch bowl period!...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. A very friendly wall figure with cute dwarfs and a happy...
Hand-painted on plywood, 27cm. Micki is the wife of Mecki, the vintage mascot of German TV Magazine Hoerzu.
Hand-painted on 0,4mm-plywood. I like the selected color shades.
I like this cool bunny, 18cm. This is one of the fairy tale wood pictures where you can find lots...
A nice hobby craft version in subdued colors. The famous scene is depicted where Mother Goose finds her youngest kid...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graubele)
Mecki is the Hedgehog Mascot of vintage and current German TV Magazine Hoerzu. I don't know anything about the producer...
I know of two large ethnical Mecki wall figures, obviusly without political correcness, this is one of them. Hand-painted on...
Thick colors on 6mm-plywood 22cm height. He looks like a pilot at first glance.
I know of two large ethnical Mecki wall figures, obviusly without political correcness, this is one of them. Hand-painted on...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Look at the back! This wall figure is so endearing!! (Graubele)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Those craft calenders were very popular in the middle of the...
Look at the details: Wonderful! The shadows on the clothes, on the meadow, even on the on the paper bags....
Hobby craft using a Graupner template. (Fly Agaric Mushroom)
This colorful little series was painted by one person, either in Germany or the USA. There found their way to...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives (Graubele / Graupner 5198). 1....
Hobby craft using a fretwork template, 18cm. Here we got it all: Red toadstool, dwarf, ladybug, raven, moon with a...
An unusual motive that I've only seen by Graupner so far. (Graubele / Graupner 5289)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 12cm. I like this basket full of apples. Graupner managed to...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. Here are 4 different motive: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
In the fifties and sixties is was a ritual in many families to have the mother read a fairy tale...
I think it's a Hobby craft using a template. Hand-painted on plywood. Heinrich Hoffmann is the author of the Struwwelpeter...
Most likely a hobby craft using a fretwork template. A rather funny version, the Basque cap, the hidden wolf. And...
A great hobby work. I am not sure whether the template is by Pebaro or Graupner. Hand-painted on wood with...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. More often than not Sleeping Beauty is sleeping alone on fairy...
Those tiny angels were very popular in Germany back then. Printed wood template on 3mm-plywood. Fretwork template.
One of the popular little candle angels. Printed on 3mm-plywood with coloring suggestions. (Fretwork Template / Graubele 5397)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 22cm.
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. Most likely from Pebaro.
A hobby craft work from an experienced 1960s child, 20cm. (Graubele Graupner Gänseliesel 5202)
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. A hobby fretwork art, masterly done. I admire the color shades that the (little) arist chose! The...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Again a creepy witch, maybe the creepiest of them all. (Graupner...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. German Babyboomer children might have a homely feeling with this...
Dullien and Hobby belong together or at least they did from a certain point on. I have known a fretwork...
This is a happy Little Red Riding Hood of the second decade after the war. With the 50s the „economic...
Here you see a half finished Pebaro fretwork template and two Little Red Riding Hood results. They are all very...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. There are only a few Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale wood pictures where...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Here you see the original fretwork template and one result, a...
Hand-painted on wood, a hobby craft work. This scene of the fairy tale is quite rare among Wooden Wall Pictures....
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner Graubele 5436)
Snow White and Rose Red is a beautiful Brothers Grimm fairy tale that is hardly found on wall figures. This...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood.
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 20cm. An unusually detailed fairy tale wood picture - take a...
The widow's name is Witwe Bolte. When you read her story as an adult, it's really sad. "Boyish pranks" are...
(3rd Trick = The Tailor Boeck) (Graupner Graubele Katalog 5365)
(4th Trick = The Teacher Laempel) (Graupner Graubele Katalog 5295)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (6th Trick = The Baker) (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5335)
(7th = Final Trick The Farmer) (Graupner Graubele Katalog 5336)
(5th Trick = The Uncle Fritz) The practical joke stories by Wilhelm Busch. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5273)
Hand-painted on wood with many many dots. They are applied so thick, that you can feel them with your fingers,...
A rather accomplished hobby work with quality colors and varnish. I like the friendly red-green color scheme.
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. Here are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then....
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then....
The producer Dullien had the most colorful fretwork templates of them all. (Max and Moritz / Wilhelm Busch)
Some of the Dullien fretwork templates look a bit grotesque - this is one of them!
The producer Dullien had the most colorful fretwork templates of them all. Enter "Dullien" in the search!
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (German Fretwork)
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. This is a really sweet Graupner template, you cannot get much cuter....
Hand-painted on plywood, 16cm. Hobby craft using a Graupner / Graubele template.
The hobby artist was not great painter, but I like the color scheme and the dotted head scarf. And look...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood.
Unfinished projects - they are beautiful because they highlight how great it is to finish a project which is your...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. These colors don't follow the original color suggestions by Graupner,...
This wooden wall figure seems to scream: „1970s!!!!“ It is a beautiful work, especially for a hobby craft item! The...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 19cm height. (Pebaro, Dullien 730)
Pebaro is the abbreviation for "Peter Bausch Ronsdorf". Ronsdorf is a part of the larger city Wuppertal. Pebaro was founded...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. This wall figure always makes me smile, it’s so cheeky....
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Height: 11cm. Look at the cool happy frog! (Key Holder) (Graubele)
Dullien and Hobby belong together or at least they did from a certain point on. I have known a fretwork...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Height: 12cm. The template's name is: "Eine harte Nuss." (Graupner Graubele...
Dullien and Hobby belong together or at least they did from a certain point on. I have known a fretwork...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 19cm. The coins with the number 1 on it are unusual.