August Rumm

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August Rumm (born March 10, 1888 in Schwanheim , † February 27, 1950 in Allemühl ) was a German portrait, figure and landscape painter and lithographer .

Life and works

Rumm was the son of a teacher. After his father Karl Rumm was transferred to Bretten , he and his family moved there in 1896. Rumm completed training as a drawing teacher. He attended the teachers' college in Karlsruhe from 1904 to 1907 , where he was a student of Heinrich Eyth . He taught in Ittersbach and Rußheim and, from 1908, studied at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts. After his drawing teacher exam in 1911, he became a master student of Wilhelm Trübner . From 1912 to 1914 he was a lecturer at the Karlsruhe teacher training college and worked at the secondary schools in Baden-Baden and Säckingen . In 1918 he quit school and became a freelance painter. After various study trips in 1920, he created the portrait cycle The Face of Time , which was published in 1924 by the Society for Spiritual Structure. From 1925, Rumm showed his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

In May 1927 Rumm married Marie (née Lautermilch), and the following year the couple moved to Grötzingen , having previously lived in Karlsruhe. In 1929 the "Community for the Promotion of Art August Rumms" was founded. In 1933 Rumm moved into a studio apartment at the Rittnerthof in Durlach . In the same year, on June 29th, he took part in an event as part of the second "Cultural Fighting Week" in favor of local art. Allegedly 3,000 people took part in the event in the hall of the festival hall, but this number can be attributed to the fact that members of the Hitler Youth were used as accessories. Speeches were held on this day by the local poet Heinrich Vierordt , the music professor Franz Philipp and Hans Adolf Bühler from the Badische Kunstschule. In addition to Rumm, the sculptor Hermann Volz , the composer Clara Faisst , the painter Hermann Junker and the writer Karl Joho were also present. As recently as 1932, four portraits of Rumm's hand were depicted in the Jewish family paper Menorah : the portraits of Alfred Mombert , Martin Buber , Friedrich Gundolf and Jakob Wassermann .

From 1940 Rumm was a member of the NSDAP . In 1940 the last move followed to Allemühl in the Odenwald.

From 1925, Rumm belonged to the Grötzingen artists' colony. Among other things, he created a portrait of Johannes Reuchlin , which is in the Reuchlin Museum in Pforzheim . A portrait of Melanchthon came into the possession of the Baden Ministry of Culture in Karlsruhe, and a portrait of Luther in the Grötzinger church. He painted a Nativity for the church in Windischbuch . The Badische Landesbibliothek acquired his Mombert portrait. In 2002, Rumm's daughters Amadea and Angelika donated three paintings and two drawings by their father to the Eberbach City Museum.

literature

  • Rumm, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 201 .
  • Otto Gillen: He drew the face of time. In memory of the Baden painter August Rumm. In: Ekkhard . 1974, pp. 72-77.
  • Otto Gillen, Hermann Rumstadt: The Odenwald painter August Rumm. In: Eberbacher Geschichtsblatt. 74/75, 1976, pp. 12-17.
  • Waltraud Kniss, Volker Hooß: August Rumm. 1888-1950. Grötzingen 2000 (= Grötzinger Heimatbrief. 49, special print).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Rumm on eart.de.
  2. ↑ The second “cultural fight week” at the end of June 1933 on karlsruhe.de.
  3. ↑ Menorah. Jewish family journal for science, art and literature. Issue 7, 1923, pp. 323, 325, 329 and 331.
  4. ↑ Victor Farías, Joseph Margolis, Tom Rockmore: Heidegger and Nazism . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1991, ISBN 0-87722-830-2 , pp. 70 ( books.google.com ).
  5. ↑ Rumm, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 201 .
  6. ^ Pictures by August Rumm for the museum. May 8, 2002 on omano.de.
personal data
SURNAME Rumm, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, figure and landscape painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwanheim
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1950
Place of death Allemühl