1930er Hellerkunst: Antike Kindergarten-Wanduhr mit winzigen Kindern, Handbemalt, 40 cm 🇬🇧 Antique Hellerkunst: Early Kindergarten Wall Clock with Tiny Children, Hand-painted, 40 cm

HELLER, WANDUHREN: Von Hellerkunst gibt es auch Kinder-Wanduhren. Ich kenne eine große Uhr aus den 1930er Jahren, mit der Hunderte von Kindern jahrzehntelang die Uhrzeit gelernt haben: Das war in einem Kindergarten in Köln/Ehrenfeld. Die Mini-Figuren auf der Uhr illustrieren den Tagesablauf von glücklichen, gut versorgten Kindern. Die Wanduhren von Heller werden in ähnlicher Form immer noch hergestellt, von Jan Heller, der die Manufaktur seines Vaters und seiner Großeltern inzwischen in dritter Generation führt.

🇬🇧 HELLER, CEILING LAMPS: I’ve known several last century ceiling lamps by Hellerkunst. They are all very large and have a wooden ring on which the wood pictures are mounted. One of these lamps is showing six wood plaques from the 1930s with their backs not painted: They look like the usual Heller backs. A different lamp from the 1950s has fairy tale figures that are painted on both sides. The wonderful thing about this is that the back does not show exactly the same picture like on the front but that you can actually see the back view of the motif. I love the fact that some of those figures are well known designs where you’ve only seen the front side, like the Stooping Snow White: Normally you only see a bit of a braid, but now you can see on the back that the girl has two wonderful thick black braids. (Buch/25)