Emil Stumpp

Emil Stumpp studied at University of Marburg. Ingeborg Sundbaum is recorded as having studied under Emil Stumpp. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting and illustration. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are caricature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Germany.

• Illustration — A portrait by Stumpp of Martin Andersen Nexø Stumpp was born in Neckarzimmern in southwestern Germany, but he moved with his family at the age of three to Worms. When he was eight the family moved to Karlsruhe. Stumpp served in the first world war reaching the rank of lieutenant. His early education had been in Karlsruhe, Uppsala and in Berlin. He studied art as well as philosophy, history and German. In 1924 he left his teaching post to become a full-time artist, despite having a wife and five children to support. He was successful and created portraits of many well known people including Bertold Brecht, Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Mendelsohn, Chancellor Friedrich Ebert, Alfons Paquet, Thomas Mann, Otto Braun and Else Lasker-Schüler, Le Corbusier. He was eventually commissioned to create a portrait of Adolf Hitler for his birthday in 1933. The work was not well received and the portrait, Stumpp, his paper (the General Anzeiger), and its editor were all prohibited. Stumpp left the country but returned in 1940 to tend to his terminally ill daughter. He rented an estate in Perwelke, East Prussia, and continued to be critical of the Nazi government. Denounced by his landlords, he was arrested and sentenced to one year in jail. Weakened by malnutrition and mistreatment, he died of pneumonia in Stuhm prison in West Prussia in 1941.

Emil Stumpp is recorded with the occupation secondary school teacher. Classed in the genre caricature. Recorded as painter, draftsperson, teacher, pedagogue and art educator.