Posted 10 months ago
Pumepass
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BERTA HUMMEL SKETCHING
•ANGEL OVERLOOKING BABY JESUS
•11in x 8in (SKETCHING ONLY)
•CAN'T SEE A NUMBER
•Wondering if Anyone has info on this.
•FRAMED IN GERMANY
•HER SKETCHES were her 1st Works and then made into postcards and then into figurines.
•I have read that her orginal Sketches are worth something but not sure if this is a print or original. Not sure I want to take out of frame. Maybe still worth something either way.
Thanks everyone.
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It's very sweet, I like her artwork infact, I have a postcard by her and I think yours is a framed postcard too because of the white border. Unfortunately you'll have to remove it from the frame to know for sure. Check out the Hummel postcard that I just posted. Good Luck
Hi, Pumepass. :-)
It's beautiful, but I don't think it's an original, if only because of that stamp on the backside, which I'm transcribing here as best I can (probably less than perfect):
BILDER
KAHMEN SPIEGEL
KARL HOGER
WIEN VII., ZIEGLERG 13
FERNRUF B 38 2663
So the publisher or at least the dealer was in "WIEN" AKA Vienna, as opposed to Munich.
*snip*
In 1933, the convent sent about 30 sketches of sister M.I. Hummel to the publishers Ars Sacra in Munich for the purpose of creating post cards of each. In a second period from 1935 to 1937, sister Hummel had personal contact with the publishers as well as Maximiliane Möller from Munich.
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http://mihummel.org/sketches-drawings-and-paintings/
The vintage of the original sketch is probably post 1932, because of the signature:
*snip*
An approximate date can be made of the pictures by the way she signed them. Early pictures are signed Bertl Hummel, B. Hummel or B.H. and sometimes there is no signature. After she changed her name for the Sießen Convent works in 1933, she signed her name M.I. Hummel or just Hummel.
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http://mihummel.org/sketches-drawings-and-paintings/
You might consider taking it out of the frame to look for more clues.
I haven't found a HUM number for that particular sketch itself, but Hummel numbers HUM 24 (figurine), HUM 262 (figurine), and HUM 424 (sketch) all seem to have been derived at least in part from it:
*snip*
H 424
Lute Playing Cherub (card number F 212) is shown by Fink Verlag Stuttgart postcard #212 with the figurine HUM 24 – Lullaby by Reinhold Unger in 1935 and HUM 262 – Heavenly Lullaby with the German title Laute spielendes Englein by Gerhard Skrobek in 1968.
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http://mihummel.org/sketches-drawings-and-paintings/