Berta Hummel is well-known in Germany. Those who love porcelain figurines of children and good spiritual illustrations cannot remain indifferent to the works of this German nun. She had a short life (37 years), but it was so bright that her heritage still attracts new fans. If you love kindness and positivity, it is difficult to remain indifferent to such works.

Meet the nun-artist Maria Innocentia Hummel, Berta Hummel by birth.

She was born in 1909 in a large family. She drew since her childhood. Berta created surprisingly good portraits of children and angels. When she already lived in the monastery, where she came as a little girl, she was drawing every spare moment. Nuns were so impressed by her works that they sent her to one of the Munich publishers and soon she got her first book of illustrations. And then postcards on the works of Berta appeared.

Franz Gabel, the owner of the porcelain fabric Goebel, saw a set of these cards in one of the shops in Munich in 1934. They impressed him so much that the porcelain figurines of children and angels have become a new direction of the Goebel company. In 1935 these figurines were shown at the international exhibition, they made such a furore that the production of Berta's statuettes had been renewed for all the subsequent years. Unfortunately Berta was unable to fully evaluate the love of the public for her wonderful works, she died in 1946 of tuberculosis.

A postcard with her porcelain figurine...

Amazingly peaceful artwork of Berta Hummel embodied in porcelain remain the subject of love of many collectors of porcelain figurines. They are carefully and attentively collected by subject or year, presented for the Baptism or the birth of a baby, they are gifts for the closest.

During her short and bright life Berta Hummel managed to draw several hundred papers, Goebel company "revived" and brought to porcelain most of them. There were different figurines in different years.

After World War II, many figurines by Berta Hummel were taken to the US as trophies. There is a museum in Illinois which has one of the largest collections of figurines and Hummel's original illustrations.

Another Museum is in Germany, in the hometown of Berta Massinga (Bavaria). Incidentally, the name "Hummel" means a "bumble-bee", so sometimes Berta painted on her pictures a bumblebee instead of a signature.

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