3. Early Mertens-Kunst
6. June 2020
Here you’ll find Mertens-Kunst wall figures from the 1930s and 1940s.
During the 2nd World War, varnish was hard to come by for Alfred Mertens and his manufactury. So the wood...
Hand-painted on plywood. I love wood pictures with candles, they make great pictures! Especially this one!!! (German Wall Figure Fairy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Small Figure Brothers Grimm Long Hair Blond Braid Pink Flower in her Hair (German Wall Figure...
Hand-painted on plywood. Enter "Mertens ravens" in the search. You'll find another raven sister with braided hair, but it has...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Nr.26 Children's Books Illustrator Art Nouveau Long Blond Hair. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Yellow Base Brothers Grimm Donkey Dog Cat Rooster Smart Seniors (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Seven Miles Boots Feather Hat Delicate Face Features (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Duvet Polka Dots Dead Scarf Yellow Blouse Brothers Grimm (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Does anyone know if this is really Mertens? Details: Wings Fantasy Beautiful Handicraft Alfred Mertens (?) (Fairy...
Hand-Painted on plywood. Details: Brothers Grimm Fine Lines Blond Braid Hair Do White Blouse Puffy Sleeves Side Painting (German Wall...
Hand-Painted on plywood. Details: Umbrella Frog Beautiful German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Decoration Plywood Vintage...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Black Cape Rats Bum Bag Red (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on wood with lots of varnish - and thick colors, too. That was typical for products right after World...
Details: Fine Face Features Brothers Grimm German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Decoration Plywood Vintage Nursery...
Details: Stone Edelweis Boulder Dwarf (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery Old)
Details: 6-mm-Plywood!! Copy? Template? Pig Brothers Grimm Pig (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
Details: Brothers Grimm Endearing Pink Flower Dress German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery Decor...
Mertens-Kunst: 1930s Star Money Girl with Waterfall Hair (Bruenhild Schloetter) / Hand-Painted 21 cm
Details: Aetherial Angellike Angel Artist Brothers Grimm German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery Decor...
Hand-painted on plywood. This figure was produced right after the 2nd World War. Details: Colorful Peace Brothers Grimm Dance Rumplestiltskin...
With additional side painting. 5,5 cm height. Is it really from Alfred Mertens' manufactory? Who can help here? Details: Brothers...
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. Is it really from Alfred Mertens' manufactory? Who can help here? Details: Brothers...
Details: White Ribbons Yellow Puffy Sleeves Brothers Grimm Shy (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork...
Hand-painted on plywood.
Here looking to the right. Details: Unique Simplicity Impact Yellow Light-Blue Endearing (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
A very colorful Little Red Riding Hood, it was produced just after the 2nd World War when quality material was...
Early Mertens-Kunst, the only naked Puss in Boots I know of. Great design, great work! Details: White Cat Red Boots...
With additional side painting. One of the most endearing Mertens-Kunst. There is also a beautiful version with orange dress. I...
With additional side painting. Details: Brothers Grimm Gnome Cute Hair Bow Yellow (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Details: Brothers Grimm Flared Trousers Giant Scissors Pointed Hat (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork...
Hand-painted on plywood. Height: 24 cm. A typical Mertens-Kunst wall figure of the 2nd World War. Mertens-Kunst had severe problems...
Early Mertens-Kunst. Look at the delicate movement of this wall figure! And it's somewhat sad. Details: Brothers Grimm Art Deco...
I love the bright colors here! Colorful bases very often equal beautiful at Mertens-Kunst. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
An explosion of color: Just after the 2nd World War that's what Mertens-Kunst made! Quality material was available again, the...
Attributes: Holland Shoes, Short Trousers, Apron, Fly Agaric Mushrooms, White Blouse. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood, 25cm height. I guess that in the 1930s Brunhild Schlotter had worked for Alfred Mertens. The similar...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. These belong to the tiny fairy tales series by Muenchner-Kunst. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
A breathtakingly tender color scheme with white, light blue and yellow. The girl looks like an angel at first sight,...
A wonderful color scheme with black and orange. Brother Grimm's Mother Holle/Hulda with the Good Girl (Golden Mary) and the...
An explosion of color: Just after the 2nd World War that's what Mertens-Kunst produced! Quality material was available again, the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Height: 25cm. Early Mertens, extremely beautiful. Look at the details! (7 Ravens, Brunhild Schlotter, Art Deco)
Flowers in her hair, flowers in her hand and flowers to her feet. This early Mertens-Kunst wood picture didn't do...
This wood picture belongs to a Mertens-Kunst series about tradtional German clothes. So beautiful! Look at the transparent bonnet front!...
This wood picture belongs to a Mertens-Kunst series about tradtional German clothes. (Alfred Mertens) (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
Hand-painted on plywood. Marterial was scarce during the 2nd World War. Here the lacquering layer is missing.
The doll mothers by Mertens-Kunst were very popular and they changed a lot over the 5 decades of their production....
Which is the most beautiful of them all? Sometimes I don't know which of the early Art Deco Wall Figures...
A beautiful early Mertens-Kunst wall figure. Later, in the year wars, the colors became less luminious. This one has thick...
Again, an early Mertens highlight! Very early work, very much motion, you can feel him walk. And that elegance and...
Details: Art Deco Snow White and Rose Red Brothers Grimm (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Look at the communication between mother and child. This is the most tender Mertens-Kunst wall figure. I guess that in...
One of the highlights of early German Wall Figures. Very dainty, a motive in movement. Be very careful if you...
One of the early Mertens-Kunst Art Deco Highlights! (Brunhild Schlotter?) (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
How do you communicate with a snail almost your own size? He seems to be shouting, but we’ll never know!...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Height: 21 cm. An absolute early Mertens-Kunst highlight. Details: Beautiful Tailor Work Masterpiece Alfred Mertens Manufacturer (German...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 18cm. One of the early Mertens-Kunst masterpieces. I guess that in the 1930s Brünhild(e) Schlötter had worked...
Very enchanting. I had looked for it for years and could finally order it from the USA where it had...
Hand-painted on plywood, 20cm. A beautiful and rare color scheme.
Hand-painted on plywood, 30cm. Such a beautiful green! I also like the contrasting yellow sleeves. Very early Mertens-Kunst - much...
Unique identifier of this version: She's holding the star way over her head's height. A beautiful color scheme that works...
A very dainty early Mertens-Kunst work. You will find those white puffy sleeves on other early Mertens-Kunst, too. Somehow you...
AHeight: 26 cm. Hand-painted on plywood. The artist might well be Brunhild Schlotter. Compare the fine features!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 30cm. An unusually large wall figure by Mertens-Kunst. There is a second soap bubble dwarf by Mertens-Kunst.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 22cm. I like the color scheme of red and orange. The edelweiss is painted very accurately and...
A beautiful early work. The artist who created this design knew a lot about skiing, look at the details! (German...
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the colors! They are so beautiful here!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. One of those gorgeous products right after the 2nd World War.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 13 cm height. I guess that in the 1930s Brünhild(e) Schlötter had worked for Alfred Mertens. The...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A wonderful color scheme with light blue, yellow and a bit red. It's the fairy tale about...
Hand-painted on plywood, 17cm. I love the color scheme with lots of white and a little red.
These beautiful pictures were made by Andrea from Swabia, which is a beautiful region of south Germany. She created this...
Hand-painted on wood an very rare. The early Mertens-Kunst faces were indeed more earnest, which you can see on this...
The early Mertens-Kunst Pied Pipers were very elegant and slim and very art deco. Here you also see the reduced...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Faces are hard to paint, and this one is so beautiful! The detailed Pixie Cut and the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 22cm. Brothers Grimm's Mother Holle / Hulda. One of the early Mertens-Kunst masterpieces. (Pitchen Mary)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 25cm. There is a similar Mertens version with a crown instead of the apple.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 20cm. Mertens-Kunst couldn't order quaility plywood during the 2nd World War as easily as before. That meant:...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Most of the early Mertens-Kunst dwarfs had naked or knubbly knees, like here.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Orange is a color that Mertens-Kunst did not use very often. Here it is part of a...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. The Frog King Princesses by Mertens-Kunst came with different crowns. Even this very old Frog King princess...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. Only later on did Mertens-Kunst produce the West-TV Little Sandman. But that did not air before...
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. There is a later screen-printed version where he carries the scissors over his shoulder.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Here we go again: Early Mertens equals beautiful most of the time. Very simple and very enchanting.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Most of the first motives by Mertens had solemn faces and were simple. Simply beautiful!
Hand-painted on plywood, 28cm. Look at her wide shoes: They are typical of early Mertens-Kunst. ("No10 Floetengnom")
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A funny motive, but maybe it was not very popular, you don't see it so often.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 15cm height. The most tender wall figure of them all with a just a little retreating enchanted...
This is one of the pale wall figures produced during the 2nd World War. The colors were applied very thinly...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This girl is unusually earnest und the neck doves’s position is unusual as well.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 21cm. Early Mertens-Kunst had very long hair! This beautiful Sleeping Beauty version came in red and powder...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. An explosion of color: That's what happened to Mertens-Kunst right after the 2nd World War. Quality material...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Many of the most enchanting wall figures were produced by Mertens-Kunst, and here you see again, why!...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. One of the smaller Frog King versions. Look at the details, she's so pretty!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. There's only one wood picture with an ermine collar I have found so far.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is one of the pale wood pictures produced during the 2nd World War. The colors were...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. The colors are dull, if you compare them to the bright colors Hansel and Gretel versions right...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is one of many pale wall figures produced during the 2nd World War. The colors were...
Details: End 1940s Colorful Brothers Grimm German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Antique Toy Fretwork Decoration Plywood Vintage Nursery...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. "This sailor girl is just great! And it's a girl for a change. And she's not melancholic...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. One of my favorites with the fine face features, the orange red color scheme and the naked...
Screen-printed with additional hand-painting, 26cm. I love the colors and the fine lines! Look at his delicate face! He seems...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. "Nr. 16 Rotkaeppchen".
Grossmann Reit im Winkl started their business with hand-painting, at the beginning with larger figures like this one, too. Later...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. An explosion of color: Just after the 2nd World War that's what Mertens-Kunst produced! Quality material was...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with bright colors but matte varnish. I like the black bow and the basket with the cake....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. After all this time - still one of the brightest wall figures with its sun yellow dress...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 24cm. This is the Snow White of the White-Yellow-Dress-Series with the most details, adding to its beauty....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. The motive was very popular, and other manufacturers copied it! This is how you spot a copy:...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Black is a hard color, but it makes this wall figure more interesting. In the long run...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. So simple and beautiful with a striking color scheme.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Look at the raven she's holding! Look at how he looks at you. So beautiful!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with shining varnish, 21cm. So simple and endearing. It's one of those colorful German wall figures right...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Toadstools have always been popular guests wall figures, sometimes they even were a big part of the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Here we have a Mertens-Kunst masterpiece with simple but great details: Look at the color shades and...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is one of the pale wall figures produced during the 2nd World War. The colors were...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. There are many different Mertens-Kunst Cinderellas, many of them even have the same number. ("A70 Aschenbroedel")
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. There is a similar Mertens version with Cinderella raising her apron, only with red vest and red...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A very loving scene. The tender dwarf reminds me of Albert Schweitzer's words: "I am life that...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. It says Alraune on the back, which is mandrake in English. Still I don't get why this...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. I wonder who had bought this wood picture in the first place? Maybe a rich aunt for...
Hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. A "Kindchenschmema" wall figure. Google it, it's a thing!
Hand-painted on plywood, 19cm. Quality was missing during the war years. The layers of paint got thinner. But the base...
Screen-printed with additional hand-painting.