Franz Goebel, director of German pottery company, was impressed by Hummel’s designs and collaborated with her to transform the paintings into ceramic figurines. The pieces were an immediate ...

Q. Enclosed is a photo of a porcelain Hummel figurine that was my mother's. She was born in Germany, and when she went back to visit her family her sister gave her the figurine. It stands about 5 ...

Born Berta Hummel in 1909, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel was both an artist and a nun from the Third Order of St. Francis.

Another museum, in Rosemont, Ill., contains figurines only, while in Sister Hummel’s birthplace of Massing, Germany, there is a museum of her drawings done before she entered the convent.

when the good Sister told me that Hummel figurines were based on the art of Sr. Maria Innocentia Hummel, a German Franciscan sister, artist and anti-Nazi crusader. I sat down to listen to Sister ...

The over-sized figurine is the largest M.I. Hummel ... but its host company has closed up shop. Hummel, headquartered in Germany, has been in insolvency court, and while a purchaser has been ...

Following their introduction to the world at the 1935 Leipzig Fair, Hummel figurines quickly became very popular—particularly in the U.S., as American soldiers stationed in Germany often sent ...