OTHERS 1946-1980
6. September 2016
HERE YOU FIND among others: Ore Mountains and GDR, Original Bergischer Engel, Grossmann and Muenchner-Kunst&Handwerk.
HAND-PAINTED ON WOOD,THIN VARNISH, the third an last generation of Munchner-Kunst. The size shrinked a lot compared to the first...
MARGARETHE EDEL IS THE WOMAN BEHIND EDELHOLZ FREIBERG. This wall figure has no name on the back, but they style...
LOOK AT THE LONG FACE and the round mouth! The artist, Mrs.Gruner-Witkop (90 in November 2018) told me, that some...
LOOK AT THE LARGE FLOWER BASE, that started the shift of Münchner Kinder-Wandbilder to Münchner Kunst&Handwerk. The wall figures became...
🇬🇧 Grossmann has existed for almost 50 years. They do not produce any more but they still sell a few...
I LOVE THE GINGERBREAD WALL FIGURES by Münchner-Kunst. I have seen about 5 variations so far, and I think there...
THE STAMP ON THE BACK TELLS YOU about an early Original Bergischer Engel item. Later they used the red-white stickers...
THERE ARE VERY FEW WALL FIGURES with Christmas themes, but here you've got the gingerbread cookies, typical of German Christmas....
THIS IS MIDDLE-AGED MÜNCHNER-KUNST. The old one had more elaborated meadow base and no varnish. Enter "1940s Munchner" in the...
🇬🇧 This Wall Figure is one of the very first shortly after the war. The wood that was used was...
The manufactury Edelholz Freiberg belonged to Margarethe Edel. The GRD government took it from the owner and made it a...
🇬🇧 This wall figure shows the Little Muck in almost toddler age, huge head, sucking his thumb. Very unusual.
🇬🇧 This is a wall figure of the very first collection of Original Bergischer Engel. Mrs Gruner-Witkop, the founder and...
I got this one as a present from the artist herself when I had the honor of visiting Frau Gruner-Witkop...
🇬🇧 I love this Cinderella by Edelholz Freiberg. I have not found this motive being done by any other manufactury....
A typical Mother Holle motive. The unusual thing about this one is the winter forest pine and that there is...
🇬🇧 Very rare, the artist herself, Johanna Gruner Witkop gave it to me for the Online Museum. Hand-painted on wood....
This fairy tale wood plaque belonged to a pediatrician's waiting room. Her stamps are on the back.
Der ursprüngliche Entwurf ist von Mertens-Kunst aber er wurde während der DDR-Zeit zehntausendfach kopiert. Das Original stammt aus den 1930er...
When I visited Mrs.Gruner-Witkop in summer 2017 I had the chance to take pictures of her archive wood plaques. She...
This fairy tale wood plaque belonged to a pediatrician’s waiting room. Her stamps are on the back.
This beautiful Sailor was a gift of its designer, Mrs.Gruner-Witkop, to my husband, who is a single handed sailor. He...
🇬🇧 Stamped on the back: 360
WEHA is for "Werkstätten Haupt" (Fritz Haupt)
WEHA Stands for"Werkstätten Haupt" (Fritz Haupt)
🇬🇧 The manufactury Edelholz Freiberg belonged to Margarethe Edel. The GRD government took it from the owner and made it...
🇬🇧 Starting a manufacturing business right after World War II, that was very different from today. Winter 1945/46 was very...
🇬🇧 In the very first years (from late 1945) this manufactury produced little angel figures. That is why the word...
Which is the most famous Toy Fair in Germany? Most likely it’s the Nuremberg Toy Fair, taking place once a...
🇬🇧 On the back you will see first attempts at screen printing. The front however shows thick layers of paint...
🇬🇧 The artist herself gave me this wall figure, it is hand-painted on wood done very nicely, too. Johanna Gruner-Witkop...
The manufacturer Original Bergischer Engel produced both Fairy Tale Wall Figures and Jumping Jacks, all made of wood. The production...
As Mrs. Gruner-Witkop had told me, the ORIGINAL BERGISCHER ENGEL Jumping Jacks were the most successful items of the product...
The Swabians is a Brothers Grimm story. 7 Men want to be brave, but they get so much frightened of...
This dwarf is made of unusually thick wood: 5 layers instead of three, adding up to 0,5cm. the normal thickness...
🇬🇧 This wall figure is still 0,5 cm thick like all the wall figures by Münchner Kinder-Wandbilder. But it also...
It's a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The text says "I killed 7 at one go", not telling that it were...
I was lucky to have made a wonderful new friend in 2017. Brigitte is very interested in art (talented, too!)...
🇬🇧 There are only few Fairy Tale motives by Kleur en Profiel. The Dutch artist Jan Snelten had his very...
🇬🇧 The German Democratic Republic existed from 1949-1990. It was also called East Germany at that time. They produced a...
This ORIGINAL BERGISCHER ENGEL Jumping Jack Sweep Girl was sent by me back to its designer Mrs.Gruner-Witkop in Solingen-Wald, where...
My Dresden friend Brigitte had arranged an appointment it the Dresden Folkart Museum, its proper name being: „Museum für Sächsische...
You find the translation below, and yes, there really are these endearing grammar mistakes which I put into the translation...
🇬🇧 A classic sandman. Hand-painted on wood, beautiful colors. Not too rare.
This is Johanna (Gruner) Witkop around the time where she founded "Original Bergischer Engel". She had been only 18 at...
🇬🇧This wall figure was most likely already produced by Mertens-Kunst who had bought Original Bergischer Engel in the late 1960s.
How do you find information about a manufactory that produced their last Wall Figure roughly 40 years ago? I got...
