GRAUPNER+HOBBY
5. July 2016
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.
This is a great copy of the Mertens-Kunst original. The original has blue and red skirts, this is all red....
German Babyboomer children might have a homely feeling with this figure. We have a tradition of walking in the dark...
I don't know anything about the producer of this Mecki, too bad, because it is fantastic work! Look at the...
A very early fretwork template by Graubele, later called Graupner. There were two fretwork pieces that had to be put...
Look at the details: Wonderful! The shadows on the clothes, on the meadow, even on the on the paper bags....
Don't fear the rabbit: That is the message of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Most things you fear...
This wall figure always makes me smile, it’s so cheeky. A fine hobby work. Hand-painted on wood with varnish.
A black frame, that is unusual. Graupner templates came with a color scheme, but I have not seen it for...
Very rare and proof that there were hobby craft fretwork templates for this motive, too. The grey spotted areas had...
A hobby work item, maybe made from a fretwork template by early Graupner, hand-painted on wood.
This wall figure is hand-painted on only one layer of wood, not three as usual. There is a producer stamp...
This is a "garage sale" find! I have never it before and I guess it is mom's little helper rather...
I know of a similar dirndl motive in an old Graupner catalogue. This might well be Graupner too. The producer...
The first Graupner templates were called "Cannstatter Laubsaege-Arbeiten", later they changed the name to "Graubele" and then to the real...
A rare wall figure, and rare is a SMILING fly agaric mushroom, too. You will find another one on Ravi-Kunst...
A hobby craft piece of work, very well done, hand-painted on wood. Many of the first fairy tale wall figures...
A classic by Graupner, this version was very popular back then. I like the color shades on this very item....
Many of the first wall figures had a frame, like this one. The rain drops were painted dark blue, which...
First, Mr.Graupner called his brand "Graubele", later he changed it to his real name, Graupner.
This seems to be a hobby craft, but I don't know the producer of the template. It is hand-painted on...
There is a text on the back which translates to: „Merry Christmas 1941". A funny gift for a war time...
This backside was once planned as the front side. The printed grey dots were supposed to be cut out. The...
First mentioned 1940, dated on the back of a wall figures with this motive. It is a hobby work, hand-painted...
This design is still influenced by the Art Deco style. It is a beautiful work, look at the details of...
Check out the shadows on the wolf's back! You will see this version quite often. This is a particularly well...
In the first 1812 version of the Brothers Grimm it is a duck carrying the siblings over the lake, one...
In the 1960s is was a ritual in many families to have the mother read a fairy tale at bedtime....
The frog looks as if he's wearing ear muffs or headphones, so this wall figure always makes me smile. It...
I know of two large ethnical Mecki wall figures, obviusly without political correcness, this is one of them. Hand-painted on...
Very rare, especially in this great hobby craft version. A hobby craft item.
I have only known of one wall figure depicting Hansel's cage, and that is this one. A fine hobby craft...
A great piece of hobby art. There was a craft template box by Graubele which included the thermometer. Which still...
I know of two large ethnical Mecki wall figures, obviusly without political correcness, this is one of them. Hand-painted on...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and a very deft piece of work. It seems incredible what a difference 50 years...
Look at the back! This wall figure is so endearing!!
The most interesting part in this Graubele-Cronicle is this: Johannes Graupner started working in the fretwork template business in 1930....
You don't find this version quite often, with many variation of the colors. I guess the first template didn't come...
Johannes Graupner was the creative mind behind "Graubele", later called "Graupner". At the beginning, he had worked for "Cannstatter Laubsäge-Arbeiten"...
A great hobby work. I am not sure whether the template is by Pebaro or Graupner. Hand-painted on wood with...
Hand-painted on wood with many many dots. They are applied so thick, that you can feel them with your fingers,...
Snow White and Rose Red is a beautiful Brothers Grimm fairy tale that is hardly found on wall figures. This...
"PÜNKELCHEN UND DER KARFUNKELSTEIN" VON DICK LAAN, COPYRIGHT 1955.
PEBARO is the abbreviation for "Peter Bausch Ronsdorf". Ronsdorf is a part of the larger city Wuppertal. Pebaro was founded...
The hobby artist was not great painter, but I like the color scheme and the dotted head scarf. And look...
PEBARO is the abbreviation for "Peter Bausch Ronsdorf". Ronsdorf is a part of the larger city Wuppertal. Pebaro was founded...
More often than not Hans in Luck is shown with a goose or a pig. This is one of the...
The template got produced in the 1970s. This hobby work however was done by Brigitte Lange for her son Martin...
In this art box it says: "Junger Bastler - Alter Meister" = Young craft child - Old Master." That was...
Theses booklet has 9 templates for fairy tale fretwork art. They could be ironed onto the ply wood. In this...
The text says: "Merry Chrismas Wishes 1941" (in the middle of the Second World War) and the name seems to...