August Trumper - Artist Info

About August Trumper

  • Biography

    August (Julius Amandus) Trümper (born December 31, 1874 in Altona, today in Hamburg, † October 12, 1956 in Oberhausen) was a German art professor, painter and designer.

    August Trümper was born as the son of Adolf Theodor Bernhard Trümper and Katharina Trümper, born Schacht in the then still independent town of Altona. As a basic artistic training, he completed a three-year apprenticeship with the Hamburg decorative and theater painter G. Strube and attended the general trade school there until autumn 1894.

    This was followed by studies at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, from 1896 with a state scholarship that gave him several Study trips, among others made a three-month stay in Rome possible in 1898 (i...

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