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Whether or not you are a seasoned Hummel collector or someone that is's just considering getting started, understanding the history of Hummel figures will help you to realise why these unique pieces have touched so many folks with their beauty, simplicity and value. Though Hummel miniatures made their first mark on the world in 1935, their true history goes back to the year 1909, when a girl named Berta Hummel was born in the small city of Massing, Bavaria as one of 6 kids. While there, she was educated in a variety of resourceful media as well as a handful of other educational subjects. But on graduation at the age of eighteen, it was determined that she needed further tutelage to be sure that her creative capabilities were built to their fullest potential. Berta joined up to the Academy of Applied humanities, where she continued to grow her education in the arts as well as other disciplines. [**] despite this extra training, she never bored with her fanciful, dear drawings of youngsters that would help to provoke the most classic figures ever made. On graduation at the head of her class in 1931, she made a call to devote her life to God, and entered the monastery of Siessen which had been set up virtually 700 years earlier . While there, she taught at St. Anna Girls' Faculty in nearby Saulgau. On the completion of her student, she became a full fledged nun and took the name Maria Innocentia, dedicating the rest of her life to serving God. Inside 1 or 2 years, a dynamic and dedicated porcelain manufacturer named Franz Goebel approached Maria Innocentia and recommended a partnership. Her drawings were unlike any he'd ever seen, and he naturally knew they'd translate well into manikins that would at last become an immediate success. Promising her the uttermost in QC, conformity to her vision, and that all royalties would be returned to the monastery, Herr Goebel signed an exclusive contract with Maria Innocentia for the creation and distribution of her work thru his W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik firm. Their contract was signed Jan 9th, 1935, and, following a successful showing at the 1935 Leipzig Spring Fair, the models were an even larger success than Goebel had originally imagined. Sadly, the life of Maria Innocentia was cut all too short on November 6, 1946 when, at only age 37, she died from complications from tuberculosis. Though her life was over all too swiftly, her bequest lived on, as it does to this day, through her dear statuettes that hearken back to her puberty days in the Bavarian country.
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