Photo from Little Things website which has more information on the figurines history and how they became popular collector's items after World War II.
in the USA, many people have one of these figurines: And a lot of people have small collections of them.
but what they might not know is that the figurines were based on drawings by a German nun Maria Innocentia Hummel who was a teacher who drew and painted in her spare time;
Wikipedia points out:
The sisters were impressed with her art and sent copies to ...a publishing house in Stuttgart which specialized in religious art, to which Hummel reluctantly agreed. The company decided to release copies of the works in postcard form, which were popular in the early 20th century....
Soon afterward, Franz Goebel, the owner of a porcelain company, was looking for a new line of artwork, and happened to see some of these postcards in a shop in Munich.
One would think Hitler would have been pleased with her art, but he hated it:
Leading Nazis attacked the art, denouncing the depiction of German children as "hydrocephalic, clubfooted goblins". Although the Nazi authorities allowed Hummel to work, they banned the distribution of her art in Germany.
The Nazis closed all religious schools, and she live in poverty in the convent during the war, supporting the sisters left behind with money from her art work.
Sister Maria Inncensia Hummel died after the war of tuberculosis.
more here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZOgjOM5Sl8U?si=jyP7ooLQAtR6uPg6
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