Emil Stumpp (17 March 1886, in Neckarzimmern – 5 April 1941, in Stuhm in West Prussia) was a German painter school and performer known for his cartoons and drawings of well-known people in the 1930s during the Weimar Republic. He died in 1941 in jail after returning to Germany. He had left after drawing an unflattering portrait of Adolf Hitler.
Stumpp was born in Neckarzimmern in southwestern Germany, but he moved bearing in mind his relations at the age of three to Worms. When he was eight the intimates moved to Karlsruhe. Stumpp served in the first world skirmish reaching the rank of lieutenant. His into the future education had been in Karlsruhe, Uppsala and in Berlin. He studied art as with ease as philosophy, history and German. In 1924 he left his teaching state to become a full-time artist, despite having a wife and five kids to support.
He was flourishing and created portraits of many capably 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 Make a portrait of Adolf Hitler for his birthday in 1933. The accomplishment was not capably received and the portrait, Strumpp, his paper (the General Anzeiger), and its editor were all prohibited.
Stumpp left the country but returned in 1940 to tend to his terminally sick daughter. He rented an land 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. He died of pneumonia in 1941, aggravated by malnutrition and mistreatment.
Stumpp was perfect an exhibition in Dortmund in 1996 at the Institut für Zeitungsforschung der Stadt. He left more or less 6,000 drawings which were anything drawn from life.
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