The Boy with the Broom

Beautiful, collectible figurine Boy with a Broom The figurine sets the tone for a good mood Made of porcelain From the famous collectible painting "Hummel" Products of this factory are produced at the Goebel company factory based on sketches by Berta Hummel The Goebel brand is one of the most prestigious brands in the world in the field In 1935, the grandson of Franz Goebel found new images for porcelain figurines. The famous HUMMEL figurines spread across Europe. They make Goebel unique and famous for many years as the "Hummelwerk". In 1971, the Goebel company celebrated its 100th anniversary. The culmination of the centennial celebration was the unveiling of a monument in the form of a Hummel boy figurine On May 21, 1909, a girl named Berta Hummel was born into the family of merchant Adolf Hummel in the Bavarian town of Massing. From early childhood, Berta was passionate about drawing, and at the age of 12, she was admitted to a girls' school in Simbach, run by the sisters of the Catholic order Englische Fraulein. There, she created her first illustrations for a book by Friedrich W. Webers. Her paintings so impressed the sisters that they sent several copies to a publishing house in Munich specializing in books on religious art. And it released Berta's works as postcards, which were very popular in those years. In 1934, a collection of Berta's drawings was published Soon after, Franz Goebel, the owner of a porcelain factory, saw these postcards in one of the Munich shops. Goebel was just looking for a new artistic line for his factory. He proposed producing porcelain figurines based on Berta's drawings. In 1935, at the Leipzig Trade Fair, the figurines were a stunning success Porcelain figurines continued to be produced in Germany almost until the end of 2008 M.I. Hummel signed her works not only with her name but sometimes also with an image of a bumblebee – a unique "coat of arms," a symbol of her surname Height – 10 cm