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 (illustration: Trevi Fountain in Rome, 1898). After graduating in July 1899, he worked for two years as an assistant at the Royal Art School in Berlin and at the same time sat in at the Royal Academy of the Arts.

The city of Trier appointed Trümper on April 1, 1901 as head and main subject teacher of the painting class at their craft and applied arts school. There he taught for around three decades until his retirement at the end of December 1930, only interrupted by his land storm deployment during the First World War. The teaching subjects were painting and drawing from nature, drawing from plaster, decorative painting, ornament painting and drawing, and composition. This corresponded to the technical orientation of the school, at which the basic techniques for decoration and interior design were to be taught.

Trümper burst this narrow frame and opened the canon of fans to free painting, among other things. through lessons in nude and portrait drawing. He introduced his students to open-air painting and impressionism and moved with them out of the studios, also to “take a closer look at nature and intensely feel” in order to renew the traditional pattern ornamentation. For his dedicated work he was awarded the title of professor in 1915. The founding of the artists 'association "Trier Artists' Guild" in 1920 was also due to his initiative and the close ties to the crafts and arts and crafts school.

A whole generation of Trier painters, among others. Reinhard Edgar Ehses, Edvard Frank, Fritz Quant, Max Lazarus and Hans Adamy benefited from Trümper's knowledge and sensitivity. Some of these painters were also involved with him in the intellectual and artistic circle that had formed in the wine towns of Neumagen-Dhron and Piesport around the patron pharmacist Stephan Dewald (1884–1964) and the pastor and writer Johannes Mumbauer.

After his retirement, Trümper and his wife Wilhelmine (called Mina) Woytt from Trier, with whom he had been childless since 1904, moved to Düsseldorf, where they became a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1939. Both died in 1955/56 in Oberhausen-Sterkrade, her last place of residence. As a legacy of the painter, extensive parts of his artistic legacy came to the city of Trier and the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

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Wikipedia, Google Translate, 2021

August Trümper, 1874 Altona - 1956 Oberhausen, German painter, graphic artist and watercolorist