August Heitmuller was born in Gummer in 1873. August Heitmüller studied in Kuntsgewerbeschule in Hannover, and eventually with Franz von Stuck and Otto Seitz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and Lovis Corinth in Berlin. Study tours have took him to France, Belgium, Holland, England and Spain. In 1908 Heitmüller lived in Hanover and founded "Hannoversche secession" in 1917. Members have included Max Burchartz, Otto Gleichmann, Kurt Schwitters, Bernhard Dörries and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart. August Heitmüller passed away in 1935 in Hanover, Germany.

August Heitmüller was born in 1873 near Hanover. He studied at the School of Applied Arts, and from 1895 at the Academy of Arts in Munich under Franz von Stuck and Otto Seitz.

In Berlin he took lessons from Lovis Corinth. In 1917 he was co-founder of the Hanover Secession together with Georg Herting, Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, Ludwig Vierhalter and Kurt Schwitters as well as with the support of the Kestner Gesellschaft. Heitmüller died in 1935.(cru)