7. Munchner-Kunst + Original Bergischer Engel
5. June 2020
Muenchner-Kunst produced from the 1930s to the 1960s. The manufacturer Original Bergischer Engel produced from the 1940s to 1960s.
This is what early Original Bergischer Engel looks like. On the back there is a small hand stamp saying: "Original...
(German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Antique Picture Old Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery #germanwallfigures)
Hand-painted on plywood. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Antique Picture Old Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery #germanwallfigures)
(Photo by courtesy of Johanna Gruner-Witkop.) (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Antique Picture Old Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery...
The smiling lady is Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. She celebrated her 92th birthday in November 2020. (Photos by courtesy of Johanna Gruner-Witkop.)
The lady in the red sweater is Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, the founder and designer of Original Bergischer Engel. (1945-1967; 1967 Original...
Hand-painted on plywood. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Old Shabby Chic Vintage Nursery...
Hand-painted on plywood. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Plaque Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Old Shabby Chic Vintage Nursery...
One of the rare calendar holders by Munchner-Kunst. Hand-painted on plywood. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique...
"Munchner-Kunst & Handwerk", that was the manufactury of Mr. Jaeger & Riederer. Munchner-Kunst designed many different smaller Snow Whites (about...
I used to call this wood picture "choking Snow White", because I thought she had just eaten the poisoned apple....
Hand-painted on plywood. This is an early Frog King design by Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. On the back there is a hand-stamp....
Screen-printed on plywood. Details: Book Treesstump Reading Mouse Mice Meadow (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Cute Blond Locks Mid-Century (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Old...
Screen-printed on plywood. Details: Night Shift Blue White Yellow Long Blond Hair Brothers Grimm (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Heart Base Cute Brunette Stars Night Shirt Golden Coins (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Hand-painted on plywood. Details: Mother Holle Hulda Beautiful Cloud Show Village Black Bodice Royal Blue Base (Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Siebdruck auf Schichtholz. Details: Animals Animal Light Blue Bow Endearing Brunette (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
The stamp says Original Bergischer Engel, but this wall figure was actually produced by Mertens-Kunst. Details: Goose Checkered Shirt Fly...
Hand-painted on plywood. Most likely produced by the manufacturer Muenchner-Kunst. They produced many tiny angels and some dwarfs, too. On...
This wall figure was actually produced by Mertens-Kunst. At the end of the 1960s Original Bergischer Engel had been sold...
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. Details: Brothers Grimm Cute Basket Polka Dots Arpon Pinafore (German Wall Figure Fairy...
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. Details: Cute Spring Meadow Base Polka Dots (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
Details: Cute Dots Red Armor Lush Meadow Yellow (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage...
Hand-painted on plywood. Small and endearing. Details: Black Bodice, Bundt Cake, Puffy Sleeves. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Hand-painted on plywood. Most likely produced by the manufacturer Muenchner-Kunst. They produced many tiny angels and some other motives, too....
Hand-painted on plywood. Most likely produced by the manufacturer Muenchner-Kunst. They produced many tiny angels and some other motives, too....
Original Bergischer Engel: Nuremberg Toy Fair 1966 Which is the most famous Toy Fair in Germany? Most likely it’s the...
I am really lucky that Mrs Gruner-Witkop's father used to keep a thick ring binder with lots of information about...
This is what the early Original Bergischer Engel workshop looked like. All the first products of Original Bergischer Engel were...
This is Johanna Witkop around the time she founded "Original Bergischer Engel". She had been only 17 back then. In...
Screen-printed on plywood. Attributes: Donkey, dog, black cat, rooster.
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. Attributes: Gnome, Blue, Heart Base, Princess Crown, Brothers Grimm (German Wall Figure Fairy...
Hand-painted on plywood with additional side painting. Attributes: Bundt Cake, Braid, Basket, Flowers. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Hand-painted on plywood. It's no jumping jack and only one layer of wood, but a great idea. (German Wall Figure...
Munchner-Kunst (Jaeger & Riederer) had this beautiful heart base, in red and in blue. Attributes: Blue Heart Base, black hat,...
Hand-painted on plywood. How do you paint a Snow White with all seven dwarfs on a tiny wood picture with...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. These belong to the tiny fairy tales series by Muenchner-Kunst. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
Details: Brothers Grimm Medieval Clothes Dress Jaeger & Riederer Munich (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
This is a very unusual yet enchanting color combination. I've known it with dots instead of squares, too. (German Wall...
Attributes: Heart Girl Braid Dirndl Fly Agaric Mushroom Toadstools German Wall Figure (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
How do you find information about a manufactory that produced their last Fairy Tale Wood Picture more than 50 years...
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the less known designs by Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. An early and engaging motive.
Hand-painted on plywood. Engel means angel and I used to wonder why there was the Engel in the Original Bergischer...
The design comes from Johanna Gruner-Witkop who did all the Original Bergischer Engel design from the 1940s to the 1960s....
The beautiful thing about this list is this: We get to know the christening names of their Fairy Tale Wood...
It was the first Toy Fair in Frankfurt right after the Second World War. This picture is such a treasure:...
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood. Beautiful colors, a little piece of vintage nursery wood art in pastel. Hand-painted on plywood.
Hand-painted on 6mm-plywood with matte varnish. I love the light and friendly color scheme.
Hand-painted on 5mm-plywood. The soft color scheme, that's what I love about this wall figure. I also like the hair...
Hand-painted on plywood. I like the soft colors. And the spot of red is a nice contrast color here.
This is special about many of the early "Muenchner-Kinder-Wandbilder Handmalerei": 1. They used very thick wood with 5mm thickness. 2....
Hand-painted on plywood. The 1930s Münchner Kinder-Wandbilder had large wall figures and a matte finish. My guess is that they...
Hand-painted on plywood. The checkered base is rather unusual for a German Wall Figures, but typical of early Muenchner-Kunst.
Hand-painted on cardboard. Most producers of wall figures had problems getting high quality material during the 2nd World War. All...
Hand-painted on plywood. A rather unknown Brothers Grimm fairy tale. (KHM 96)
Hand-painted on 5 mm-cardboard. Details: Muenchner-Kinder-Wandbilder Handmalerei Brothers Grimm War Product (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Details: Brothers Grimm Collar Jacket White Cat (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Vintage Nursery...
A date on the back of a antique wall figure is very valuable - it helps to tell when a...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. 22cm. (Jaeger&Riederer)
This wall figure is still 5mm thick like all the wall figures by Muenchner Kinder-Wandbilder. But it also shows the...
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. It was poor wood in the first...
I have known two versions of this Hans in Luck so far, one with goose and one with pig. Both...
This Wall Figure is one of the very first by Mrs. Gruner-Witkop shortly after the war. The wood that was...
The stamp on the back tells you about an early Original Bergischer Engel item. Later they used the red-white stickers...
This is a very early wall figure by Original Bergischer Engel. It's hand-painted on 3mm-plywood and with many details. The...
Hand-painted on plywood. I like the candy cone, it seems to be filled with beautiful flowers. In Germany, children get...
There is a similar design by this producer showing a Sweep Girl Jumping Jack. She comes with blond locks, too.
Hand-painted on 5mm-ply-cardboard (4 layers). Height: 26cm.
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. Good wood, thick layers of paint and thick varnish, too. The Munich Art also invested in very...
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.
Hand-painted on plywood. Mother Holle (also called Mother Hulda) is very often depicted with a pillow, but hardly with feathers,...
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...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
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, 5mm. Rare with luminous colors....
I got this one as a present from the artist herself when I had the honor of visiting Mrs. Gruner-Witkop...
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...
From the archive of the artist, Mrs. Gruner-Witkop. I like the haptics, you can feel the good wood and the...
A very proud version of Puss in Boots. But WHAT is he holding in his hand? Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood.
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....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A cute figure with her white collar and dot bow. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture...
I have known three different sweeps by this producer so far. Early screen-print on 3mm quality plywood.
This beautiful Sailor was a gift of its designer, Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, to my husband, who is a single handed sailor....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Details: Brothers Grimm Rumplestitskin Rumple Fire Dance Hunter Outfit Feather Hat (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood...
Hand-painted on 3,5mm-plywood. (Rumplestiltskin)
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop, who had turned 90 in November 2018, told me in February 2019 on the telephone that she remembers...
Hand-painted on plywood. Munchner-Kunst very often had the chubby cheeks and the round face, but this is one where they...
Hand-painted with much varnish on thick wood (5mm!). One of the animal wood pictures that don't belong to a fairy...
Mrs. Gruner-Witkop was the sole artist of Original Bergischer Engel. She painted this sample in 1959 but it was never...
Hand-painted on plywood. This wall figure by Original Bergischer Engel belonged to a pediatrician's waiting room. Her stamps are on...
Hand-painted on plywood. A cute little wood picture, maybe it was an Easter present for happy spring children.
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...
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...
This very Jumping Jack Sweep Girl was given back by me to her designer Mrs. Gruner-Witkop in Solingen-Wald, where it...
Height: 24 cm. Original Bergischer Engel produced very unusual Jumping Jacks. This is one of them.
Hand-painted on plywood. I like the colors, a yellow base is rare. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft...
Screen-printed on plywood, 19cm height.
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood plus 2mm-plywood for the golden halo. Height: 25cm. Yes, there were angels as German Wall Figures. This...
I like the golden hair band. Later almost all producers of wood pictures used yellow instead of gold.
"Rie-Bilder" stands most likely for "Riederer", one of the names behind Munchner-Kunst. (Münchner-Kunst)
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...
This is a classic sandman, no German TV-Sandman (we have two, a West Germany version and an East Germany version)....
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood with varnish. ("Münchner Kunst und Handwerk / 349" / "v.Tante Helga 1961")
Screen-printed on plywood. Again the very popular fly agaric mushrooms. (German Wall Figure Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy...
Screen-printed on 4mm-plywood, 21cm (Fairy Tale Wood Picture Handicraft Antique Toy Fretwork Old Shabby Chic Vintage Nursery)
It says "Fischmarkt" = Fish Market on this wall figure! Johanna Gruner-Witkop told me that her jumping jacks were the...