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TIL - Hummel figurines were based on the paintings of Berta Hummel, later known as Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Early in life she enrolled in Munich’s famed State School of Applied Arts n art history, life drawing, watercolor and oil painting, and textile design graduating top of her class.

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