Hummel Porcelain Figurines

In Massing, Bavaria, Berta Hummel was born May 21, 1909. Hummel came to love drawing and went to Munich in 1927 to attend the Academy of Applied Arts. She graduated in 1931. After she graduated she became a nun at the Franciscan Convent of Siessen in Bad Saulgau. Hummel spent her spare time painting pictures of children, which were made into postcards. Franz Goebel, the owner of a porcelain company saw her postcards and asked the covent to allow him to make figurines based on Hummel’s artwork.

 At the age of 37, Hummel died of tuberculosis. Goebel and his company still continue to create figurines from her art. Since Hummel’s drawings are all 2 dimensional the sculptor must imagine what the drawings would look like 3 dimensional and put unseen details into the clay model but still stick to Hummels style consistently. Since, Hummel’s passing, the finished model done by Goebel’s company must be presented to her family and to the artistic board at the Convent of Siessen before it is produced of the public.

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