RAVI-KUNST: (1941-1967)
9. January 2019
Ravi-Kunst was a 1940ies to 1960ies manufacturer of German Wall Figures located in Hamburg, in the north of Germany. The artist’s name was Lisa Viertel – she designed all the wood pictures and jumping jacks. Besides the Wall Plaques there were also very lovely jumping jack items being produced in not more than two decades. Ravi-Kunst came up with many motives that you do not find among Hellerkunst or Mertens Kunst items, for example a weather prophet dwarf with a huge toadstool hat.
Hand-painted on plywood.
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. The early Ravi-Kunst jumping jacks were great, unusual ideas and very solid. All Ravi-Kunst jumping jacks...
With this beautiful and somewhat sad 1940er Golden Key Child I want to thank the wonderful artist of Ravi-Kunst, Lisa...
Hand-painted on plywood. "GF/5 Freundschaft / Friendship"
Hand-painted on plywood. The colors fit poor Cinderella, the patched up dress, too. I like Lisa Viertel's faces, they always...
Hand-painted on plywood. Light blue with pink flowers - always a wonderful color scheme! And the gold of the tiny...
It's hand-painted on wood with varnish. This is a beautiful Mother Holle, just look at the details: The shadows on...
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. This is early Ravi-Kunst - why? Look at the back. You will see the little paper...
Hand-painted on wood with much varnish. I love the wonderful color scheme with the golden crowns, the golden ball and...
This version with the grey dress is early Ravi-Kunst. Later on Ravi's favorite became the radiant red and blue goose...
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood, 28cm. A very unusual motive by Lisa Viertel. She used to experiment quite a bit when she...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. On the back is a label sticker with "Little Red Riding Hood", which is obviously a...
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the beautiful colors and the tenderness of this wood picture! Lisa Viertel drew those round...
Hand-painted on plywood, 20cm. At first glance I thought this was Hans in Luck. But the label on the back...
Hand-painted on plywood, 18cm. This seems to belong to a Kindergarten series by Ravi. On each of them you see...
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. The big red umbrella makes a nice contrast to the autumn colors and the rain. -...
Hand-painted on plywood. In Scandinavia people celebrate the Midsummer Night. This wall figure is one of four, dedicated to the...
Hand-painted on plywood. Lisa Viertel of Ravi-Kunst produced a seasons series, this is the winter motive. I like her fluffy...
Hand-painted on plywood. There are other producers with Little Peter as a wall figure, but only Ravi-Kunst painted the moon...
Hand-painted on plywood. Anneli is the sister of Little Peter. The early Ravi-Kunst wood pictures of this story are wearing...
Hand-painted on plywood. Look at the red label: Lisa Viertel, designer, painter and owner of Ravi-Kunst produced in Hamburg and...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. One of the earliest Ravi Snow Whites. I love the double layered dress. This Snow White reminds...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish. I like the high collar and the sleeves with a touch of orange. Lisa Viertel...
Hand-painted on plywood. I love the special shade of light blue that Lisa Viertel used, especially in the first years...
Hand-painted on plywood. This wall figure belongs to the „cute animals“ - many manufacturers produced some of those. Look at...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. I love the soft color scheme. Lisa Viertel designed so many dwarfs, she had to describe them....
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood. Usually Ravi used 3mm-plywood. I love the naked knees dwarfs. Look at the menu of this site:...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Lisa Viertel designed her own clothes, so her wall figures have great clothes, too. Many of the...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and rare. I am not absolutely sure it is Ravi-Kunst. Here are the 4 that...
Hand-painted on 3mm quality plywood. Lisa Viertel designed many of those key holders. Most were dwarfs, but there were also...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is a key hanger - Ravi produced many differnt ones. A rather grotesque dwarf, with his...
Hand-painted on plywood with varnish. A smiling mushroom is a rare motive on Wooden Wall Figures. Ravi also did a...
Hand-painted on plywood. Here you have a cornucopia of cuteness details that make you look closer: The small feather hat,...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 24cm. I like the color scheme with lots of light blue.
Hand-painted on plywood. Again the red brick stones, adding to the vivid color scheme. This wood picture was meant for...
Hand-painted on wood with varnish. Solid thick colors, that's what I love about Ravi-Kunst! One of the Cinderella series with...
Hand-painted on wood. Red, yellow and light blue are a pretty color scheme, add the fresh green and you have...
Hand-painted on plywood with varnish. It belongs to the four seasons series by Ravi-Kunst. This is one of the most...
Hand-painted on plywood. Once again, the red brick stones, adding some color to this Mother Holle design. You also find...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. What I like about Ravi-Kunst is that they sometimes show unusual details or scenes of the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood, 23cm. I like the double dresses by Ravi-Kunst. This girl has a yellow dress with a red...
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the great success wall figures were the red-blue goose girls. First with, later without base....
Early Ravi-Kunst, hand-painted on wood. Gretel pulling her brother away from danger, an endearing idea.
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. Look at Gretel's colors: They are bright yet soft. I like that and the fact that...
Hand-painted on plywood. I think it's supposed to be a stick, but I like to think of it as baguette....
Hand-painted on plywood, 22cm. On the back: "JM/11" and Dwarf stamp.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. On the back: "KG/3 Kind mit Gänsen / Child with goose" and Dwarf stamp.
Hand-painted on plywood, 13cm height. Cute and rare. It was supposed to become a part of a children's coat rack.
Hand-painted on plywood, 25cm. Thinking about how fragile a child's soul can be, this motive speaks of trust and quiet...
Hand-painted on plywood, 24cm. Wooden wall figures on water are rare, but they do exist. Kleur en Profiel and Mertens-Kunst...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Normally ravens are shown on wood pictures when depicting the fairy tale "The Seven Ravens".
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Theodor Storm wrote the story "Little Haverman" in 1849 for his own child. Later it became famous....
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. A red base, that's rare. The color scheme's beautiful here, what with the yellow bedspread and the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-quality-plywood. Lisa Viertel loved Polka Dots. She tailored her own clothes, a polka dot dress and a polka...
Hand-painted on plywood, 24cm. Red clothes are typical for the rat catchers, but the green hat is quite unique. Typical...
Hand-painted on plywood, 21cm. I love Lisa Viertel's layer look. You can tell she was a tailor, too!
Hand-painted on wood with varnish and nice thick colors. Rather rare with his turban and somewhat oriental appearance.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Look at the great shape of this wood figure, and then imagine this: It was produced in...
Hand-painted on plywood. (Z/2 Zwerg mit Blume / dwarf with flower / Dwarf stamp)
Hand-painted on plywood. There are two versions of this Snow White, one with light blue tunic and one with light...
Hand-painted on plywood. There are two versions of this Snow White, one with light blue tunic and one with light...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known almost 10 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new...
Hand-painted on plywood. No, this is not the only Ravi-Kunst Snow White! I have seen about 10 different versions so...
Hand-painted on 3mmm-plywood with lots of varnish. This is rather early Ravi-Kunst. You can see the juggling dwarf on the...
Hand-painted on 3mm-quality-plywood. The huge scissors are perfectly painted! Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale, KHM 20.
Hand-painted on 4mm-plywood with much varnish. ("Ravi-Kunst Handarbeit M/18 Däumelinchen")
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with varnish. There is a Snow White and Rose Red by Hellerkunst. Look it up, the bear...
Hand-painted on plywood. ("GF/1 Wettlauf running match / 4.20 Ravi-Kunst" with juggling dwarf. / Only stamps, no paper slip)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood with shiny varnish. A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. ("The girl with the matchsticks").
Hand-painted on plywood. The classic Struwwelpeter in Ravi-Kunst style. (Shock Headed Peter // Heinrich Hoffmann).
Hand-painted on plywood. There are a couple of wall figures of the Struwwelpeter himself, but rarely any of the other...
Very rare, hand-pained on wood. Candles on wall figures are always pretty!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. ("KL/2 Zwerg mit Enzian / dwarf with gentian" / with juggling dwarf / stamps only).
Hand-painted on wood, thick colors with varnish. Great color scheme with red, yellow and three shades of green. It is...
Hand-painted on plywood. Fly agaric mushrooms are very popular, and this one is breathtaking! The mushroom is smiling and he...
Hand-painted on plywood. There are at least four different Ravi-Kunst dwarfs with the same color scheme: Light blue dwarf, red...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. I like the old fashioned brushwood broom!
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Colorful bases are rarer than the normal brown ones.
Hand-painted on plywood. You do not really see it here, but this is a rather large wood picture by Ravi-Kunst.
Hand-painted on plywood. Count the eyes! No joke, that really makes a big difference in German Wall Figures. Most are...
Hand-painted on wood with thick paint and a thick layer of varnish. A cute motive and rare, too.
Hand-painted on plywood. The bunny racer by Ravi-Kunst came in different versions. This one was supposed to be on top...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known 9 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new variations...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known 9 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new variations...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known 9 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new variations...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known 9 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new variations...
Hand-painted on plywood. I have known 9 different Ravi-Kunst Snow Whites so far. Which each new design came new variations...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Lisa Vietel called him "Cockie"! ("Ravi-Kunst handgemalt HT/9 Cockie" / Dwarf stamp and paper stripe).
Hand-painted on plywood. Max and Motitz are the bad boys by Wilhelm Busch. I love it that Ravi-Kunst only did...
Hand-painted on plywood. Seven Parts is much for a Ravi-Kunst jumping jack. Normally you've got the body plus arms and...
Hand-painted on plywood. A lucky dwarf with the fly agaric hat and the lucky clover! ("Pilzmaennchen")
Hand-painted on plywood. This duck is a rather unique design, I have only seen it by Ravi-Kunst so far.
Hand-painted on plywood. All the jumping jacks by Ravi-Kunst had great quality! They all had solid metal joints. I have...
Hand-painted on plywood. This Mister Punch was produced it in different color variations. I like it very much. ("Ravi-Kunst Handgemalt...
Hand-painted on plywood. This one is so perfect it seems to have been a special order. His history: He had...
Hand-painted on plywood. This Mister Punch seems to have been quite successfull, Ravi produced it in different color variations. I...
Hand-painted on plywood. Sometimes you'll find little paper slips with numbers and letters on Ravi-Kunst's backsides, and they are really...
Hand-painted on plywood. It’s double cute: The bunny and the little chick on the apron.
Hand-painted on plywood. All the jumping jacks by Ravi-Kunst had great quality! Each had solid metal joints. I have not...
Hand-painted on plywood. Plywood is used for wall figures in order not to get warped wood. A definitive Ravi-Kunst highlight!...
Hand-painted on plywood, 18cm height. Die USL "SS USA" was a Transatlantic Passenger Liner between New York and Europe from...
Hand-painted on plywood. You can divide the motives of the children's wood pictures era in "fairy tale/no fairy tale". It's...
Hand-pained on 3mm-plywood. ("Ravi-Kunst Handgemalt Hamburg" / Only one stamp, no paper stripe)
Hand-painted on 3mmm-plywood. Polka dot accessories became popular from the 1950s, especially those with fly agaric mushroom colors like this...
Hand-painted on plywood, 26cm. This wood figure reminds of happy girls in the fifties or sixties. The war years were...
Hand-painted on plywood, 12cm Höhe. This was supposed to become part of a children's coat rack.
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. This is a beautiful light blue / dark blue color scheme, completed with Cinderella's blond hair. The...
Hand-painted on plywood. In the 1960s childlike facial features appeared on many fairy tale wood pictures. That meant a bigger...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. Everything by Ravi-Kunst was handmade in Germany.
Hand-painted on plywood. One of the great success wall figures were the red-blue goose girls. First with, later without base....
Again the larger heads starting from the 1960s (childlike facial features, called Kindchenschema in Germany, and yes, it is a...
Hand-painted on plywood, 23cm. From the 1960s onwards there was a tendency to show the faces on fairy tale wood...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. There are two pinetree girls by Ravi: One with a flower, one with a bunny. They are...
Hand-painted on plywood. This is a very unique identifier: I only know of one Little Red Riding Hood in Holland...
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. ("M/6 Sterntaler star-thaler" / Stamp only)
Hand-painted on 3mm-plywood. (The Wishing Table)
Hand-painted on wood with thick colors and much varnish. The title „Wichtelmaennchen“ means a cute dwarf, but this cute dwarf...