Emil Stumpp

Wilhelm Emil Stumpp ( born March 17, 1886 in Neckar rooms, † April 5, 1941 in Stuhm, West Prussia ) was a German teacher, painter, and one of the most famous German press artists of the Weimar Republic.

Life

He was the son of the gardener William Stumpp from Stetten and Mary born Aeckerle. The family moved three years later to Worms, where he grew up in a large family. After graduation (1904 ) he studied one semester at the School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe to study after the military service at the Philipps- University Marburg German, history and philosophy. The studies took him to Berlin, to the University of Uppsala and back to Marburg, where he graduated in 1914 his state. Immediately after graduation, he was drafted into the army and witnessed the end of the First World War with the rank of lieutenant.

From 1919 he was art and physical education teacher at the Royal hides Gymnasium in Königsberg, but resigned in 1924 from the education service and began working as a freelance painter and draftsman. One of his main client was the Dortmunder General-Anzeiger. Hallmark of his numerous portraits of important personalities from politics, business, sports, spiritual life and the art world was that he was self-sign the portrayed. He succeeded, after several on-site visits as the only artist to receive from Edvard Munch 's permission to portray this.

In 1933 he was commissioned to draw on the occasion of the birthday of Adolf Hitler, whose portrait, which was then printed on April 20, 1933 in Dortmund General-Anzeiger on the first page. Consequence of this "critical" portraits, probably better the cartoon, was the immediate DC circuit Dortmund newspaper by the Nazis and prohibition for Stumpp. This Stumpp has undertaken in connection with the disappearance of press freedom in the German press story. In the following years he spent with the sale of paintings and drawings abroad " on water ". But he also wore text posts in the journal ghosts and spirits of his friend Königsberg Robert Budzinski.

During a visit in Königsberg in 1940, he had in Perwelk (now Pervalka ) rented on the Curonian Spit, expressed politically outspoken and was denounced by his landlord and landlady. On 2 October 1940 he was arrested in Perwelk and sentenced by the Special Court Königsberg on 14 January 1941 in a session of the Court in Memel to one year imprisonment. At the age of 55 years Stumpp died from the effects of prison conditions on 5 April 1941 in the prison of Stuhm in West Prussia.

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Possession of the museum and public collections

• The German Historical Museum in Berlin has the most comprehensive collection Stumpp in possession of the museum ( over 900 entries in the GOS object database online, see weblinks ).
• The German Bundestag has a collection of more than 300 portraits of heads German politician of the Weimar Republic from the hand Stumpps.