WEITERE 1946-1980

Platsch means splash, so his English name could be Pittisplash. He was a TV character in the then GDR and...

Look at the long face and the round mouth! The artist, Mrs.Gruner-Witkop (90 in November 2018) told me, that some...

This Wall Figure is one of the very first by Mrs Gruner-Witkop shortly after the war. The wood that was...

Very rare, the artist herself, Johanna Gruner Witkop gave it to me for the Online Museum. Hand-painted on wood end...

THE STAMP ON THE BACK TELLS YOU about an early Original Bergischer Engel item. Later they used the red-white stickers...

I love this wall figure - the little school girl with her braids and thick socks and the large school...

A very unsual shape.

🇬🇧 This is a wall figure of the very first collection of Original Bergischer Engel. Mrs Gruner-Witkop, the founder and...

Margarethe Edel is the woman behind Edelholz Freiberg. This wall figure has no name on the back, but they style...

This dwarf is made of unusually thick wood: 5 layers instead of three, adding up to 0,5cm. the normal thickness...

This is Johanna (Gruner) Witkop around the time where she founded "Original Bergischer Engel". She had been only 18 at...

🇬🇧 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...

There is a similar design by Mertens-Kunst. My guess is that Mrs Edel copied this nice work from Mertens. The...

Hand-painted on wood with varnish, rather rare. Grossmann has existed for almost 50 years. They do not produce any more...

There are several versions of Hansel and Gretel on Gingerbread Base by Munchner-Kunst. I have seen about 5 variations so...

Both are hand-painted on wood with varnish. Both have a nice simple color scheme and are quite rare. Well done,...

Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rare. Very unusual too: Look at the many shadows! Normally, the DDR=GDR wall figures...

This is quality work but there is no producer stamp on the back. Hand-painted on wood in an unusual style...

Hand-painted on wood with varnish, a nice thick color layer. You see this version quite often, it was copied very...

This fairy tale wood plaque belonged to a pediatrician's waiting room. Her stamps are on the back.

The manufactury Edelholz Freiberg belonged to Margarethe Edel. The GRD government took it from the owner and made it a...

I have never seen Max and Moritz (Bad Boys by Wilhelm Busch) with Bow Shoes before. This wall figure is...

Hand-painted with tempera paint and varnish. Very rare, I have only seen it in Mrs Gruner Witkop's archive so far....

THERE ARE VERY FEW WALL FIGURES with Christmas themes, but here you've got the gingerbread cookies, typical of German Christmas....

All Mother Holles have a pillow, but only this one has the feathers, too. Mrs Gruner-Witkop, the artist of Original...

When I visited Mrs.Gruner-Witkop in summer 2017 I had the chance to take pictures of her archive wood plaques. She...

This wall figure shows the Little Muck in almost toddler age, huge head, sucking his thumb. Very unusual. Hand-painted on...

This beautiful Sailor was a gift of its designer, Mrs.Gruner-Witkop, to my husband, who is a single handed sailor. He...

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 Frau Gruner-Witkop...

Mrs Gruner-Witkop was the sole artist of Original Bergischer Engel. She painted this sample in 1959 but it was never...

All the 1950s products of Original Bergischer Engel were hand-painted. First it were little angels, later on wall figures and...

WEHA is for "Werkstätten Haupt" (Fritz Haupt)

WEHA Stands for"Werkstätten Haupt" (Fritz Haupt)

It's a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The text says "I killed 7 at one go", not telling that it were...

🇬🇧 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...

At the end of the 1960s Original Bergischer Engel had been sold to Mertens-Kunst. There was a short period where...

Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rare. On the back you see the stamp of the first years, later there...

This cute wall figure is screen printed on wood and rather rare. Mrs Gruner-Witkop, the sole designer of this manufactory,...

🇬🇧 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...

This fairy tale wood plaque belonged to a pediatrician’s waiting room. Her stamps are on the back.

LOOK AT THE LARGE FLOWER BASE, that started the shift of Münchner Kinder-Wandbilder to Münchner Kunst&Handwerk. The wall figures became...

How do you paint the snow on the village and on the pillow? Enlarge the picture, then it becomes clear!...

🇬🇧 A classic sandman. Hand-painted on wood, beautiful colors. Not too rare.

Hand-painted on wood with thin varnish, the third an last generation of Munchner-Kunst. The size shrinked a lot compared to...

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 still 0,5 cm thick like all the wall figures by Münchner Kinder-Wandbilder. But it also...

Handgemalt auf Holz mit Firnis und eher selten, eine der späteren Serien der Münchner-Kunst.

As Mrs. Gruner-Witkop had told me, the ORIGINAL BERGISCHER ENGEL Jumping Jacks were the most successful items of the product...

🇬🇧 Stamped on the back: 360

Early sceen print with added hand-painting. There are only a few designs of Rapunzel as German Wall Figure, this is...

The Swabians is a Brothers Grimm story. 7 Men want to be brave, but they get so much frightened of...

🇬🇧This wall figure was most likely already produced by Mertens-Kunst who had bought Original Bergischer Engel in the late 1960s.

I was lucky to have made a wonderful new friend in 2017. Brigitte is very interested in art (talented, too!)...

You find the translation below, and yes, there really are these endearing grammar mistakes which I put into the translation...

Hand-painted on wood and very rare. I have only known of two Wooden Wall Figures depicting balloons, this is one...

There are only few fairy tale motives by Kleur en Profiel. The Dutch artist Jan Snelten (1909-1976) had his very...

How do you find information about a manufactory that produced their last Wall Figure roughly 40 years ago? I got...

It might be Kleur en Profiel. I know a similar version with different colors, it is this Hans in Luck...

🇬🇧 The German Democratic Republic existed from 1949-1990. It was also called East Germany at that time. They produced a...

Which is the most famous Toy Fair in Germany? Most likely it’s the Nuremberg Toy Fair, taking place once a...

The manufacturer Original Bergischer Engel produced both Fairy Tale Wall Figures and Jumping Jacks, all made of wood. The production...

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...