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.
I have only seen this one item with this very Mary on it. She's so beautiful. It could be a...
A very unusual motive on unusual wood: 6mm-plywood, twice as thick as usual! The metal triangle on the back was...
Just after the Second World War Hedi Duell had to earn money to support her two little sons Willi and...
Check out this beautiful turquoise, combined with gold (crown and belt) and the black of the Ravens: One of the...
Those craft calenders were very popular in the middle of the last century! Daddy got one, sister got one, granny...
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...
This wooden wall figure seems to scream: „1970s!!!!“ It is a beautiful work, especially for a hobby craft item! The...
This is a happy Little Red Riding Hood of the second decade after the war. With the 1950s the „economic...
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.
Look at the back! Almost 80 years ago someone did us a favor and glued the original color template on...
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.
A very early fretwork template by Graubele, later called Graupner. There were two fretwork pieces that had to be put...
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 style and the fine face features all fit early Mertens-Kunst, but the back looks rather like Hobby Craft. I...
The first Graupner templates were called "Cannstatter Laubsaege-Arbeiten", later they changed the name to "Graubele" and then to the real...
This is a template for a key holder. It might be Cannstatter or even earlier, Graupner bought Cannstatter fretwork only...
A rare wall figure, and rare is a SMILING fly agaric mushroom, too. You will find another one on Ravi-Kunst...
Google the story (enter "KHM 25 The Seven Ravens" in the Google search) and read it. Then look at this...
I have known two different Vobach works of this sibling couple, and their colors are VERY different, this one being...
Many hobby art items have darkened over the decades. It was after all a hobby and many colors were not...
For a Rumpelstiltskin he seems rather friendly, but look at his right hand: The shadow gesture he’s forming is a...
A hobby craft piece of work, very well done, hand-painted on wood. Many of the first fairy tale wall figures...
This is one of the rare religious motives on Children’s Wood Figures. I love the light and gold details on...
A classic by Graupner, this version was very popular back then. I like the color shades on this very item....
The colors are unusually bright, even after all this time! And the fragile rake is still intact, too! Someone must...
Many of the first wall figures had a frame, like this one. The rain drops were painted dark blue, which...
Sometimes you'll come across a wall figure knitting. This is the most famous example, worked after a Graupner template, it...
Look at that cep: It really reminds you of the real one! I’m talking a mushroom your parents back then...
Again one of the Graupner-series I call "funny dwarfs". There is a differnt one with a Cep. Enter cep in...
A difficult fretwork: You had to saw each letter individually.
This witch is wearing glasses and the base has been worked on twice: Outside and inside!
This calendar holder is VERY vintage! And you also have the old German Suetterin script in the producer's name!
A very elegant wood picture, he jumps over the village with style, light footed and in those high boots!
First, Mr.Graupner called his brand "Graubele", later he changed it to his real name, Graupner.
These paper scraps used to be the color suggestion by the producer. Sometimes, like here, they were glued on the...
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...
The Fly Agaric bureau equipment makes you look twice here and also the funnily shaped behind of this dwarf. On...
This backside was once planned as the front side. The printed grey dots were supposed to be cut out. The...
He reminds me of the elegance of the early Hellerkunst Rat Catchers. The thorn frame does not really explain itself:...
The letters were the most hard fretwork part here. Max and Moritz (or Maurice) are the famous bad boys by...
A good idea, to draw Till Eulenspiegel into a mirror-glass.
Ein Zwerg im Blumenhemd, das ist selten. Ich kenne es nur von dieser Graupner-Version.
One of my Graupner favorites. I like the huge strawberry so much! And the woven basket is so beautiful, too.
This design is still influenced by the Art Deco style. It is a beautiful work, look at the details of...
The most wonderful hobby craft I have ever seen, worked after the Graupner template. So beautiful, one of my all...
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...
This is a great copy of the Mertens-Kunst original. The original has blue and red skirts, this is all red....
The average Cinderella wall figure shows her with a dove, but here we’ve got a whole different scene, the famous...
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 am no artist but an admirer. We need them, too. And I ask myself how did the hobby craft...
A great hobby work, look at all the details! Haenschen Klein is a German Kindergarten Song.
I know of two large ethnical Mecki wall figures, obviusly without political correcness, this is one of them. Hand-painted on...
A nice craft version in subdued colors. The famous scene is depicted where Mother Goose finds her youngest kid hidden...
That is rare, the robbers along with our four Bremen animals! A nice hobby work, hand-painted on template.
Very rare, especially in this great hobby craft version. With quality colors and varnish.
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...
I'm not sure about the producer and I wonder about those glued on whiskers. I have only seen it on...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and a very deft piece of work. It seems incredible what a difference 70 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....
The Brothers Grimm fairy tale is called „The Wishing-Table“ (KHM 36) but it’s got two more famous scenes, one being...
You don't find this version quite often, with many variation of the colors. I guess the first template didn't come...
A very friendly wall figure with cute dwarfs and a happy Snow White.
Johannes Graupner was the creative mind behind "Graupner", also known as "Graubele". At the beginning, he had worked for "Cannstatter...
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,...
This colorful little series was painted by one person, either in Germany or the USA. There found their way to...
Snow White and Rose Red is a beautiful Brothers Grimm fairy tale that is hardly found on wall figures. This...
The one of the most successful Graupner templates! Very colorful, with one difficulty: The eyes of the witch were a...
Wow, DID I love this book as a child! I borrowed it again and again from the local library in...
This scene of the fairy tale is quite rare among Wooden Wall Pictures. I have only known this figure so...
I like this basket full of apples. Graupner managed to put this basket with 5+ apples and the dwarf and...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
Dwarf Purzel was a very successfull Graupner series back then. There are 4 different motives: 1. Dwarf Purzel with Flute...
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...
The producer Dullien had the most colorful fretwork templates of them all. Enter "Dullien" in the search!
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!
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...