about me Ÿ gallery Ÿ new bears/news Ÿ fairs/shops Ÿ contact Ÿ guestbook Ÿ links

 

 

 

A little biography – FOR ALL MY FRIENDS AND FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD......and maybe for those who would like to become it…….

 

 

 

WHO I am and …. WHY I am making bears:

 

Hi,

My name is Beate Rusch-Nann, I am a German teddybear artist and I live with my family  in the south-west of Germany in a wonderful town called Freiburg.

Besides my greatest hobby – bear making of course! – I love Italian cooking, gardening, decorating, collecting cactus – and – very,very important: TRAVELLING! Inspired by American, English, Australian and German teddybear magazines I decided one day to create a teddybear on my own.

 

But mainly it`s because of  “Fips”, the bear of my childhood. He accompanied me since I was seven years old. During all these years he  lived in our house and of course he will always do. So one day I decided “that he surely loves to have some friends” – and I began to work.

 

 

This was in 1997. Meanwhile you can find my bears all over the world and my bear “Hannes”, who was nominated for the Golden Teddy Award 2001 in Washington, D.C., found a really wonderful new home in Naples, Florida. I donated him to the Teddybear Museum of Naples, Florida, where he lives now happily among thousands of friends.

Whenever you have a chance to see him, please bring him my best wishes…..Will you?

 

Thank you for your interest in my work -  it`s time to have a look at my beary collection now – please enjoy, I “really put my life in them!”

 

If you find the time to email me, I would be very, very glad to answer it!

 

Best wishes,

 

Beate Rusch-Nann