Emil Stumpp (17 March 1886 – 5 April 1941) was a German painter, teacher, and artist known for his cartoons and drawings of well-known people in the 1930s during the

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. He died in 1941 in jail after returning to Germany. He had left after drawing an unflattering portrait of

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Biography

Stumpp was born in Neckarzimmern in southwestern Germany, but he moved with his family at the age of three to

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. When he was eight the family moved to

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. Stumpp served in the first world war reaching the rank of lieutenant. His early education had been in Karlsruhe,

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and in

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. 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

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, Erich Mendelsohn, Chancellor Friedrich Ebert, Alfons Paquet,

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and Else Lasker-Schüler,

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.Portrait of Karl Schonherr
ArtofthePrint.com, accessed March 2009 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.

Legacy

Stumpp was given an exhibition in Dortmund in 1996 at the ''Institut für Zeitungsforschung der Stadt''. He left about 6,000 drawings which were all drawn from life.Archive Exhibition
Darmstadt, accessed 16 March 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Strumpp, Emil 1886 births 1941 deaths People from Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis People from Sztum German artists German people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in German detention Deaths from pneumonia in Germany