11. Hobby: Graupner
6. April 2020
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.
Hobby craft fretwork craft using a template. (Böser Wolf Walt Disney Wölfchen Laubsäge-Vorlage / German Fretwork Zeke Wolf The Big...
This fretwork craft was made after a template by Graubele = Graupner. In the original text by the Brothers Grimm...
The wood craft template for this 1940s wall figur came from the time where Graupner called itself Graubele. It's the...
Hobby craft fretwork craft using a Graupner template. This is great hobby craft work!
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. One of my Graupner favorites. The name Graupner gave this...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner)
Producer: Graubele = Graupner. Height: 14 cm. Hobby fretwork craft using a Graupner template, hand-painted on plywood. (Toadstool)
Hobby fretwork craft using a Graupner template, hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Height: 19cm. (Walt Disney)
Hobby fretwork craft using a Graupner template, hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. Height: 24cm.
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 27 cm height. A very popular motive at its time. (Graubele Graupner...
Producer: Graubele=Graupner. Height: 19 cm. Hand-painted on plywood, worked with a template. An endearing wood picture, which tells us a...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. (Graupner)
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. The first Graupner templates were called "Cannstatter Laubsaege-Arbeiten". Later they changed the name to...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. 30 cm height. She's so beautiful. Look at the knee long hair...
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. The most wonderful hobby craft I have ever seen, worked after the...
Hobby fretwork craft using a hobby template, hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. A great hobby fretwork art, look at all the details!
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Height: 12cm. Felicitas Kuhn created a couple of template designs for...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Look at all the details! This is an unusual piece of...
The most interesting part in this Graubele-Cronicle is this: Johannes Graupner started working in the fretwork template business in 1930....
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...
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. (Graupner / Graubele 5085)
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. (Graubele / Graupner 5037)
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...
Hobby craft using a fretwork template. You'll find another smiling Toadstool made by Ravi-Kunst. (Graupner Graubele Catalog 5073)
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...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 15cm height. The most tender wall figure of them all with a just a little retreating enchanted...
The grave of Cinderella's mother is important to the fairy tale, but you hardly find it on wall figures. Another...
This witch is wearing glasses and the base has been worked on twice: Outside and inside! (Graubele)
Graupner / Graubele. A great hobby craft on 4mm-qualtiy plywood, 24cm height. (Fretwork)
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...
He reminds me of the elegance of the early Hellerkunst Rat Catchers. The thorn frame does not really explain itself:...
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).
Hobby craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. These paper scraps used to be the color suggestion by the producer....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish. (Graubele / Graupner 5001).
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)
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...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. First mentioned 1940, dated on the back of a wall figures...
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,...
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)
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)
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)
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...
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.
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 22cm.
A hobby craft work from an experienced 1960s child, 20cm. (Graubele Graupner Gänseliesel 5202)
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...
This is a happy Little Red Riding Hood of the second decade after the war. With the 50s the „economic...
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)
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. Height: 19cm.
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.
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, 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)
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood. Height: 12cm. The template's name is: "Eine harte Nuss." (Graupner Graubele...
Hobby fretwork craft using a template, hand-painted on plywood, 19cm. The coins with the number 1 on it are unusual.