Others after 1945
9. January 2019
Here you find among others: Ore Mountains and GDR, Original Bergischer Engel, Grossmann and Munchner Kunst und Handwerk.
Screen-printed on 3 mm-plywood with additional hand-painting. (GDR Toy)
Hand-painted on plywood, 21 cm height. Edelholz Freiberg produced during the GDR regime, too.
Height: 24 cm. Original Bergischer Engel produced very unusual Jumping Jacks. This is one of them.
Hand-painted on 3 mm-plywood, 27 cm Höhe. I like the colors, a yellow base is rare.
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the less known designs by Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. An early and engaging motive.
Hand-painted on plywood, 25cm. Muenchner-Kunst produced those wide wall pictures for a few years. But they also were more fragile,...
Screen-printed on plywood, 19cm height.
Hand-painted on plywood, 19+22cm. Unknown producer. Did you discover the smiling mushrooms? Bootom right side!
Hand-painted on unusually light 3mm-plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood, a large and wide figure. There are different shades of pink plus some white. I like the...
This wall figure is still 0,5 cm thick like all the wall figures by Muenchner Kinder-Wandbilder. But it also shows...
This is a wall figure of the very first collection of Original Bergischer Engel. Mrs Gruner-Witkop, the producer and only...
Hand-painted on plywood, 20cm. Quality work, unknown producer.
Late 1940s! The only black Puss in Boots I have known by this producer. Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
The artist herself, Johanna Gruner-Witkop gave it to me for the Online Museum. Hand-painted on wood end of the 1940s....
I have known two versions of this Hans in Luck so far, one with goose and one with pig. Both...
Hand-painted on plywood. The back of this motive says "Holland".
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. ("Handarbeid Holland")
You'll always find fairy tale themed adults on wood pictures, but rarely other grown-ups. Here we have one of the...
This is a cute and funny little school girl with her braids and thick socks and the large bag. Hand-painted...
A very unsual shape. Maybe it was sold at the famous Munich Beer Festival taking place each and every October....
This Wall Figure is one of the very first by Mrs. Gruner-Witkop shortly after the war. The wood that was...
Hand-painted on plywood with much varnish. Grossmann Reit im Winkl started their business with hand-painting, at the beginning with larger...
The stamp on the back tells you about an early Original Bergischer Engel item. Later they used the red-white stickers...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is high quality design, with harmonious lines and colors. Look at the back basket’s structure! I...
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood. An expert's work. ("8,45" -- )
Hand-pained on 3mm-plywood. I like the early Grossmann wood pictures - many of them are wider, and they are hand-painted.
Magda Heller was the first to draw the Star Money Girl like this, many many copied that. I like the...
This is a very early wall figure by Original Bergischer Engel. It's hand-painted on 3mm-plywood and with many details. The...
This dwarf looks different from the other ones, it's not the beard, all Grossmann dwarfs have beards. It's the hoodie,...
This is a touching hand-painted motive: It always makes me think of the many people who fled from Germany during...
Hand-painted on plywood, 24cm. My first guess was Kleur en Profiel, but on the back it says "Made in Germany"....
This dwarf is made of unusually thick wood: 5 layers instead of three, adding up to 0,5cm. the normal thickness...
There is a similar design by this producer showing a Sweep Girl Jumping Jack. She comes with blond locks, too.
Hand-painted on plywood. The design comes from Johanna Gruner-Witkop who did all the Original Bergischer Engel design from the 1940s...
I love this Cinderella by Edelholz Freiberg. I have not found this motive being done by any other manufactury. It...
Hand-painted on several layers wood to make it more solid. I love the contrasting colors of light blue dress and...
I love the dove on her hand!
This red dress is SO mid-century! It represents the girl fashion of that time beautifully! I also love the friendly...
Hand-painted on plywood. Wonderful bright colors. Unfortunately I don't know the producer's name.
Hand-painted on plywood. Good wood, thick layers of paint and thick varnish, too. The Munich Art also invested in very...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish, a nice thick color layer, 18 cm height. You see this version quite often, it...
Another picture of Johanna Gruner-Witkop’s archive: I got the chance to take pictures and wondered about the „double base“.
Hand-painted on plywood.
WEHA stands for "Werkstaetten Haupt" founded by Fritz Haupt in 1946. Many of his fairy tale wood pictures were the...
A typical Mother Holle motive. The unusual thing about this one is the winter forest pine and that there is...
This producer has a very unique style - how to put it? Colorful and round! Let’s not start with the...
Hand-painted on plywood. There are other words for this girl: Good Daughter or Golden Mary. I like the the beautiful...
Hand-painted on plywood. Mother Holle (also called Mother Hulda) is very often depicted with a pillow, but hardly with feathers,...
Hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. How do you paint the snow on the village and on the pillow? Enlarge the picture,...
This is a rather small wall figure and one of the early ones of this producer. Look at the poor...
So pretty - there is also a yellow version with veil and lace collar.
So beautiful! Rare and in frontal view, enter "frog king" in the search, you'll see that most of them have...
Hand-painted on plywood. An elegant frog king princess! I have known this design with brown dress and with light blue...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Wonderful haptics, you can feel the paint layers.
On the back there are screen-printing tests. Mrs.Gruner-Witkop attended a course with a paint producer to learn the technique for...
When I visited Mrs. Gruner-Witkop in summer 2017 I had the chance to take pictures of her archive wood plaques....
Hand-painted on wood with varnish, wonderful haptics due to thick paint layers and thick wood, 0,5 cm. Rare with luminous...
I got this one as a present from the artist herself when I had the honor of visiting Mrs. Gruner-Witkop...
One of the earlier Grossmann wood pictures. Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
Hand-painted on wood with varnish. Grossmann has existed for almost 50 years. They do not produce any more but they...
One of the barefoot goose girls, very enchanting and close to nature. The whole concept is great here, the color...
I have only seen it in Mrs Gruner-Witkop's archive so far. Mrs Gruner Witkop was the founder and sole design...
Hand-painted on plywood. I would so much like to know the name of this producer! They did large and some...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood with varnish. I don't know this special (beautiful) style and I have no idea about the unknown...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rare. Very unusual too: Look at the many shadows!
From the archive of the artist, Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. I like the haptics, you can feel the good wood and the...
Hand-painted on wood with thin varnish, the third an last generation of Munchner-Kunst. The size shrinked a lot compared to...
The WEHA letters are for "Werkstätten Haupt" (Fritz Haupt) from the Ore Mountains. When the GDR took over, the owner...
A very proud version of Puss in Boots. But WHAT is he holding in his hand? Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
The early Grossmann wall figures are fragile, and I love that! Look at the details! My online museum isn’t really...
Very unusual! It has really got a second layer of plywood. I like the "huge" bell flowers in baby pink...
Hand-painted on plywood. There aren't many wall figures with Christmas themes, but here you've got the gingerbread cookies, typical of...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. My favorite Gretel by Muenchner-Kunst! And I love the huge underarm Gingerbread Cookie Hearts of these famous...
Hand-painted on stabilizing plywood. Only in the first years did this manufacturer produce those wide wall figures. Later they became...
The back of these wood pictures are whitened. On similar versions there is a stamp with "Rie-Bilder" on the back....
I like this wood picture because it's an original idea of Edelholz Freiberg. In the 1960s and 1970s the GDR...
The original wood hanging was created much earlier by Hellerkunst, using only shades of blue. On this (great) copy we...
Nine out of ten Hans in Luck’s have the attributes goose or pig. His first possession however was the lump...
Hand-painted on plywood. The producer might be Kleur en Profiel. I know a similar version in blue color shades.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish. A Thanksgiving child, take a closer look at his bouquet! (GDR Child / Ore Mountains)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, height 8cm. Cute figure with her white collar and dot bow.
I have known three different sweeps by this producer so far. Early screen-print on 3mm quality plywood.
This is quality work but there is no producer stamp on the back. Hand-painted on wood in an unusual style...
The manufactury Edelholz Freiberg belonged to Margarethe Edel. The GRD government took it from the owner and made it a...
This is typical Jan Snelten, the big head and the carved mouth. "Jan Snelten (1909–1976) was the director of nursery...
The producer is not really called "Stationary Store", but their wood pictures were sold there, I found labels or stamps...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is a copy of the much earlier Hellerkunst Winter Boy. Yes, it's a copy, but a...
Hand-painted on plywood. You can divide the wood pictures roughly in two categories: "Fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's like Walmart...
This beautiful Sailor was a gift of its designer, Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, to my husband, who is a single handed sailor....
Cradle wood pictures used to be popular back then. I've also known them by Mertens, Heller and Ravi. I love...
This wooden wall figure got many likes on my Instagram account! It's a precious and rare motive by Edelholz Freiberg....
I like the little-girls-series by Edelholz Freiberg. Margarethe Edel did copies of Mertens and Hellerkunst, but those cute little girls...
Margarethe Edel is the woman behind Edelholz Freiberg. This wall figure has no name on the back, but they style...
Hand-painted on plywood. One of my Kleur en Profiel favorites. Jan Snelten, the artist, made her look so so happy!...
Hardly visible print on plywood, you'll see the tiny dots with a magnifying glass. The producer is not really called...
Hardly visible print on plywood, you'll see the tiny dots with a magnifying glass. The producer is not really called...
One of the cute children wood pictures by Edelholz Freiberg. Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. (GDR Childhood / Ore Mountains)
Hand-painted on plywood. You can divide the motives of the children's wood pictures era in "fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's...
Many wood hangings depict children instead of fairy tales. Those were very popular, too. This little boy is hand-painted on...
I like the colors here, the yellow of the moon and the light blue of Anneli's nightdress. (Sister Anneli)
This producer started right after the 2nd World War. Here you have three signs of post-war wall figures: The smiling...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. It's a really small wood picture, as you can see!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 26cm. ("395")
Hand-painted on 3,5mm-plywood. (Rumplestiltskin)
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood, 15cm height. The East German Little TV Sandman started 1959, the West German one, too. It was...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish. The GDR TV Sandman was invented in 1959, so this must be late 1950s. (GDR...
Screen-printed on plywood. Grossmann Reit im Winkl produced several different Snow Whites.
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
There are only few fairy tale motives by Kleur en Profiel. The Dutch artist Jan Snelten (1909-1976) had his very...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is one of the Muncher-Kunst wood pictures with the small heart base. That Munchner-Kunst phase was...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood and one of my Grossmann favorites. (Grossmann Reit im Winkl)
Hand-painted on plywood. Munchner-Kunst very often had the chubby cheeks and the round face, but this is one where they...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish.
WEHA stands for "Werkstaetten Haupt" founded by Fritz Haupt in 1946. Many of his fairy tale wood pictures were the...
There are very few slim wall figures by Grossmann, they usually made rather wide dresses, especially in the beginning -...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rather rare, one of the later series's by Munchner-Kunst.
It's a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The text says "I killed 7 at one go", not telling that it were...
Hand-painted with much varnish on thick wood (5mm!). One of the animal wood pictures that don't belong to a fairy...
Baron of Münchhausen does exist on wooden wall figures, but he's rare. So rare that I have only seen one...
Hand-painted on plywood, 26cm. A very unusual wood picture. I would love to know the producer's name. Can you help?...
Hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. It's no jumping jack and only one layer of wood, but a great idea.
Hand-painted on plywood. I have never seen Max and Moritz (Bad Boys by Wilhelm Busch) with Bow Shoes before. Look...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop was the sole artist of Original Bergischer Engel. She painted this sample in 1959 but it was never...
Screen-printed on 3,5mm-plywood, 23cm. ("Original Bergischer Engel Solingen-Wald" / White-red sticker)
Hand-painted on plywood. This wall figure by Original Bergischer Engel belonged to a pediatrician's waiting room. Her stamps are on...
An unusual and endearing motive, hand-painted on plywood. It might be from Holland, Kleur&Profiel.
I like the early Grossmann dwarfs. They are all hand-painted on 3mm quality plywood! (8/30)
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many of these dwarfs: They were small and cute, in a one-color-only outfit (red or...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
Hand-painted on plywood. A cute little wood picture, maybe it was an Easter present for happy spring children.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. In the 1950s Grossmann produced many of these dwarfs: They were small and cute, in a one-color-only...
Hand-painted on plywood. In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all,...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many of these dwarfs: They were small and cute, in a one-color-only outfit (red or...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many of these dwarfs: They were small and cute, in a one-color-only outfit (red or...
Hand-painted on plywood. (Grossmann Reit im Winkl)
I like the lamellas, they are rare on mushrooms. Most don't have them. (Toadstool)
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Colors of fly agaric mushrooms (white on red) were very popular back then.
An unusual lantern dwarf. If he wasn't holding it in his hands I would have thought of an old fashioned...
This wall figure once belonged to a pediatrician's waiting room. Now it has found a new home in the Online...
Hand-painted with extra thick eyes layers of paint on 3mm-plywood. Height: 21cm.
Pity I don’t know the name of this great producer yet. They had jumping jacks with special eyes: The paint...
The classic colors for this poor guy are red, green and yellow. This design is really reduced to the basics.
Take a close look: The braids are supposed to jump! Johanna Gruner-Witkop told me that her jumping jacks were the...
The mean faces seem to stem especially from Moritz’s (the blond one) smile and eyebrows.
This very Jumping Jack Sweep Girl was given back by me to her designer Mrs. Gruner-Witkop in Solingen-Wald, where it...
Height: 13cm. Look at the base: It's got nearly the same size as the Fly Agaric Toadstool. Very unusual.
Hand-painted on plywood, 22cm. The pastel colors are typical of Paul May. The unusual things here is the star base...
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood, 28cm. A beautiful version and perfectly crafted.
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood plus 2mm-plywood for the golden halo. Height: 25cm. Yes, there were angels as German Wall Figures. This...
Hand-painted on plywood, 15cm. It's the only Cinderella I've known by Grossmann Reit im Winkl so far. Grossmann is rather...
Hand-painted on plywood, 15cm. Back then Muenchner-Kunst und Handwerk Jaeger&Riederer sold many wood pictures to the USA.
I like the golden hair band. Later almost all producers of wood pictures used yellow instead of gold.
This is a very small wood picture. Munchner-Kunst really tested all sizes, this is one of the smallest. ("Münchner Kunst...
Hand-painted on wood, with varnish. It is a beautiful wall figure with a harmonious color scheme, but I don't know...
A rather unusual Frog King, the princess is wearing gloves and her dress reminds a bit of underwear. I like...
This is one of the Muncher-Kunst wood pictures with the small heart base. That Munchner-Kunst phase (most likely 1960s) was...
Hand-painted on very light 3mm-plywood. (GDR Toy / Ore Mountains)
Here we see Hans in Luck as a child. On a different version by Edelholz Freiberg he is an adult....
"Rie-Bilder" stands most likely for "Riederer", one of the names behind Munchner-Kunst. (Münchner-Kunst)
Most likely an original Margarethe Edel design. Clever not to choose the black hat! Now it doesn't look too much...
Hand-painted on unusually light wood / wood mix. It could be Kurt Süss, the style fits. (DDR / GDR Toy...
Screen-printed on plywood.
Look at the large flower base, that started the shift of Muenchner Kinder-Wandbilder to Muenchner Kunst&Handwerk. The wall figures became...
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the cutest Wolf Girls! I guess the design is by Margarethe Edel!
Those very small fly agaric mushrooms / toadstools are typical of Edelholz Freiberg. Enter „Edelholz Freiberg“ in the search and...
„Drei Tannen“ means three pine trees, and you will find them stamped on the back of this producer’s wall figures!...
Platsch means splash, so his English name could be Pittisplash. He was a TV character in the then GDR and...
This is a classic sandman, no German TV-Sandman (we have two, a West Germany version and an East Germany version)....
Schnatterinchen was the cute duck of the East-German TV-Sandman series and very popular at her time. Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
Someone who grew up in the GDR once told me this: Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, protesting in...
How do you paint a Snow White with all seven dwarfs on a tiny wood picture with little paint? Just...
I used to call this wood picture "choking Snow White", because I thought she had just eaten the poisoned apple....
In the 50s Munchner-Kunst entered a phase where they got very detailed and colorful, with a triangle base and „Jaeger&Riederer“...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood with varnish. ("Münchner Kunst und Handwerk / 349" / "v.Tante Helga 1961")
Both are hand-painted on wood with varnish. Both have a nice simple color scheme and are quite rare. Well done,...
This seems to be one of the original designs my Margarethe Edel, I have not seen it by other designers...
Hand-painted on plywood. ("152 / 5,25" --)
Hand-painted on plywood. This version of the Brave Little Tailor sometimes has a different stamp with VEB Olbernhau. (DDR /...
Very cute with the lush armor, the huge clover and the striped yellow head scarf. I adore the long stemmed...
This wall figure shows the Little Muck in almost toddler age, huge head, sucking his thumb. Very unusual. Hand-painted on...
Early sceen print with added hand-painting. There are only a few designs of Rapunzel as German Wall Figure, this is...
WEHA stands for "Werkstaetten Haupt" founded by Fritz Haupt in 1946. Many of his fairy tale wood pictures were the...
Hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. Dwarfs having a good time sitting on mushrooms - many producers of Fairy Tale Wood Pictures...
Again the very popular fly agaric mushrooms.
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
In the 1950s Grossmann produced many colorful dwarfs with animals or various accessories. I love them all, the haptics are...
This is a rare wall figure by Edelholz Freiberg. I have never seen this woodcutter before. The colors are very...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
Screen-printed on 4mm-plywood, 21cm
It says "Fischmarkt" = Fish Market on this wall figure! Johanna Gruner-Witkop told me that her jumping jacks were the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 11cm. These belong to the tiny fairy tales series by Muenchner-Kunst.
Hand-painted and screen-printed on 3mm-plywood, 18cm. Here you can see the developement to cuter versions.
Around 1970 Grossmann changed from hand-painting to the technique of screen-printing, like other manufacturers had done, too.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Original Bergischer Engel had been sold to the manufacturer Alfred Mertens. From there on...
Screen-printed on 3mm-plywood. This cute sweep was already produced by Mertens-Kunst, regardless of the "Original Bergischer Engel" stamp on his...
(A 534 Zwerg mit Korb) This little chap was really produced by Mertens-Kunst. At the end of the sixties Original...
Screen-printed on plywood. Ok, this is a really small Santa, but he still has tiny toys looking out of his...
Screen-printed on plywood. (Grossmann Reit im Winkl).