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Making a Magic World: Hildegard Günzel Celebrates 50 Years of Doll Designs

DOLLS Magazine Staff — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:56:55 +0000

By Karin Schrey With more than 200 award-winning designs and four lifetime awards (including DOLLS magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award) for her work, it’s no wonder that Hildegard Günzel’s dollmaking career has passed the half-century mark. In her new book Magic World — Kunstform Puppe, she relates some of her personal stories about her experiences in […]

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Hooray For Hildegard

DOLLS Magazine Contributor — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hildegard Günzel has done it again. Celebrating 35 years of dollmaking this year, the German artist’s creations continue to smile and jump and laugh and take us to where the livin’ is easy. “Hildegard’s workmanship is exquisite,” notes Barrie Shapiro, owner of The Toy Shoppe in Richmond, Va. “She captures a rare emotional quality, creating […]

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Hildegard Günzel’s Brand New World

Stephanie Finnegan — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000

When Hildegard Günzel began to make an undeniable name for herself in the United States, back in the 1980s, her Germanic-sounding name, with its many syllables and alphabet soup appearance, was a tongue-twisting nightmare. Many folks wondered whether Günzel would anglicize her moniker, reduce its difficulty, and make it easier on the Yankee palate. True […]

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Hildegard Günzel Reminisces on a Lifetime of Achievement

DOLLS Magazine Contributor — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

It was the 1970s,” Hildegard Günzel reminisces, “and I was determined that my oldest son, Kai, would not grow up with the usual gender stereotypes. I wanted to raise him to be a nurturing, peaceful man.” Günzel, who had studied fashion design in Munich, thought that giving Kai a doll would be the perfect start, […]

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