Food was scarce and it was very cold in the winter. Mother Augustine later wrote of that period, "What we suffered was indescribable". Hummel was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1944 and was sent twice to a sanatorium in Isny im Allgäu. She returned to the convent after five months, just before the region was liberated by the Free French Forces. She did not recover, and died on 6 November 1946, aged 37. She was buried in the convent cemetery. Legacy Goebel, his team of artists, and a board of sisters from the convent carried on her legacy through the figurines, all of which were based on her artwork. Goebel Germany discontinued the figures in October 2008. Sister Innocentia's sister, Centa Hummel, established the Berta Hummel Museum in the family home in Massing. Centa died September 2011, just before her 100th birthday, and the management of the museum passed to her son. One of the children depicted in her work, Sieglinde Schoen, established The Hummel Museum in New Braunfels, Texas, in the United States, which displayed about 280 of Hummel's original pieces. These pieces had been stored in Switzerland by a private collector during the War. The museum discontinued as a venue of Hummel's work in 2001. The first Mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, USA Donald E. Stephens, amassed one of the largest collections of figurines in the world. Upon his death, he bequeathed the entire collection to the City of Rosemont. To house it, the city built the Donald E. Stephens Museum of Hummels, which opened 13 March 2011. See also List of German women artists References External links M.I. Hummel Club "About M.I. Hummel" Hummel:Background, History and Features, WorldCollectorsnet.com Hummel: The Original Illustrations of Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel (1998) by Angelika Koller, Courage Books, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1909 births 1946 deaths People from Rottal-Inn People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Third Order Regular Franciscans 20th-century German Roman Catholic nuns 20th-century German women artists Nuns and art 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Burials in Baden-Württemberg Catholic painters Female Catholic artists Tuberculosis deaths in Germany