August Trümper

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August Trümper: Self-Portrait, 1908, oil on canvas, 43.2 × 34.8 cm, City Museum Simeonstift Trier, Inv. No. III 1584 (Photo: City Museum Simeonstift Trier)
August Trümper: Trevi Fountain in Rome (allegorical representation of abundance in a niche in the south facade of the Palazzo Poli), 1898, tempera, 23.5 × 18.5 cm, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, inv. No. III 142 (Photo: City Museum Simeonstift Trier)
August Trümper: Lüneburg Heath, undated, oil on canvas, 60 × 45 cm, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, inv. No. III 1409 (Photo: City Museum Simeonstift Trier)
August Trümper: Female portrait head, 1913, oil on canvas, 29 × 22 cm, City Museum Simeonstift Trier, Inv. No. III 326 (Photo: City Museum Simeonstift Trier)
August Trümper: Female Nude, 1925, watercolor, 58 × 45 cm, City Museum Simeonstift Trier, Inv. No. III 324 (Photo: City Museum Simeonstift Trier)

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.

Origin and education

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 an artistic basic training, he completed a three-year apprenticeship at the Hamburg decoration and scene painter G. Strube and attended part-time the local General trade school to autumn 1894. He then studied at the educational establishment of Decorative Arts Berlin , from 1896 with a government grant that to him several Study trips, etc. a. 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 attended the Royal Academy of the Arts .

Teaching

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 about 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, where the basic techniques for decoration and interior design were to be taught. Trümper blew up this narrow frame and opened the canon of fans to free painting, u. a. 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 foundation of the artists 'association "Trier Artists' Guild" in 1920 was due to his initiative and the close ties to the crafts and arts and crafts school. A whole generation of Trier painters a. a. Reinhard Heß , 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 moved to Düsseldorf with his wife Wilhelmine (called Mina) Woytt, who came from Trier and with whom he had been childless since 1904, and was there from 1939 a member of the artists' association Malkasten . Both died in 1955/56 in Oberhausen- Sterkrade , their last place of residence. As a legacy of the painter, extensive parts of his artistic estate came to the city of Trier and to the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

Works

A catalog raisonné has not been created. However, the holdings of the Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier and the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf, the catalog of the estate auction held in Mutterstadt in 1992 (245 lots), a sketchbook Trümpers published in print, works in private ownership and literature references provide a representative overview.

Free painting

August Trümper preferred a loose style of painting, applied in short brushstrokes, with a rather restrained coloring. It can mainly be assigned to German late impressionism, with a clear influence on the art of the Berlin Secession , whose conflict-ridden founding phase and first heyday he experienced during his student years in Berlin. Important members of the Secession such as Walter Leistikow , Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth or Max Slevogt had developed an independent impressionist landscape painting there under the influence of French models, to which Trümper can be seen in his numerous oil paintings and gouaches with views of the greater region of Eifel, Moselle, Saar and the Lüneburg Heath leaned against it. As a committed open-air painter, he designed his landscapes directly in front of the motif, often in sections or fragments. Going beyond the function of illustration, he directed his typical impressionistic interest primarily to the representation of light and fleeting atmospheric conditions, for example in his series of four oil paintings on the subject of the Saar valley near the small town of Taben-Rodt, created in 1925. Trümper's portrait art was also determined by spontaneous access to the other person and generous style. It also dovetailed with his intensive preoccupation with the entire human figure: In a remarkable number and variety of female and male nudes he searched for perfection throughout his life.

applied Arts

In the field of applied arts, Trümper worked with a variable range of styles. For the design of honorary certificates and festive programs, which he was often asked to do, he chose a historicism that was happy to quote. This did not only apply to his honorary citizenship certificate created in 1901 for the church and art historian Franz Xaver Kraus , who bequeathed parts of his extensive library with an important Dante collection and numerous art objects to his hometown Trier. Trümper also worked with similarly conservative formulas of pathos and dignity when, in December 1920, while participating in a competition held by the city of Trier, he presented a certificate of honorary citizenship for the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum and a little later a large congratulatory address from the Trier artists' guild on the fortieth anniversary of the consecration created by the aforementioned bishop in 1921. Trümper showed himself more free and inclined to a flat floral Art Nouveau when designing wallpaper patterns, surprisingly sober and progressive in his designs for interior furnishings. His book decorations, ornamental as for the “Trierisches Jahrbuch für Aesthetic Culture” or sensitively illustrative as in the Heimatbuch “Das Moselland” (see bibliography), were rated as particularly creative. With the color lithograph “The Roman Imperial Palace in Trier” he took part, like many other painters, in the “From German Lands” program launched by the Voigtländer publishing house in Leipzig between 1912 and 1914, an art education initiative to distribute sophisticated wall decorations for schools, homes and homes Train compartments.

The Evangelical Lutheran artist was also entrusted with extensive orders for church art from the Catholic side. In 1919, for example, he provided the drafts for the war memorial in the outer hall of the Piesport parish church of St. Michael, which was decorated in elaborate mosaic work. The main motif, "The Keltertreter", was also published as a book illustration. Trümper designed liturgical equipment and dedicated himself to church painting, for example in 1929 for the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt in Neumagen-Dhron. There he created a Holy Trinity from an altarpiece and large-format apse and ceiling paintings as an artistically significant work of art. The painting fell victim to a redesign of the interior of the church in 1964 and is only documented in photographs.

Exhibitions

  • 1908 Trier, December. Christmas exhibition of the Art and Trade Association for Trier and the surrounding area in the Venice House.
  • 1913 Trier, May / June. Exhibition "Eifel art and culture from old and new times" in the craft and applied arts school.
  • 1914 Trier, June / July. Exhibition of works by teachers and students in the crafts and arts and crafts school.
  • 1920 Trier, September. Founding exhibition Trier Artists Guild in the business premises of the "Blue Hand" as part of the "Trier Art Week".
  • 1921 Trier, October. Exhibition in the Provincial Museum, organized by the major artists 'association "Westmark" in cooperation with the Trier Artists' Guild.
  • 1921 Trier, December. Founding exhibition of the (short-lived) “Trier painter group” in the garden room of the casino, with Trümpers participating.
  • 1924 Trier, December. Christmas exhibition of the Trier artists' guild in the house "Venice".
  • 1925 Trier, August / September. "Trade Show Trier 1925" on the occasion of the millennium of the Rhineland.
  • 1926 Trier, April. Trümpers solo exhibition on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of service at the crafts and arts and crafts school.
  • 1927 Trier, April. Exhibition of all subject areas in the rooms of the crafts and arts and crafts school in cooperation with the Trier artists' guild.
  • 1929 Trier, May. Free exhibition "The practical home" ("The beautiful home") in the municipal Tonhalle.
  • 1957 Düsseldorf. Memorial exhibition for August Trümper as a member of the artists' association Malkasten.
  • 1981/82 Trier, November to January. Exhibition on the 25th anniversary of the painter's death in the Simeonstift Municipal Museum.

Fonts

  • Nature as the starting point for surface decoration and ornament . In: Johannes Mumbauer (Ed.): Trierisches Jahrbuch für Aesthetic Culture , Trier 1908, pp. 51–53 (book decorations and artistic equipment for the book by August Trümper).

literature

  • Richard Wirtz: The Moselland - A home book . Book decorations and artistic equipment by August Trümper. Trier undated (1925).
  • J. Vannerus: Wirtz (Richard). The Moselle region. A home book. Trèves, sans date (1925), 359 pages et nombreuses illustrations. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire , 1928, Volume 7, Numéro 7-3, pp. 1148–1149.
  • “Sketchbook Trümper”, printed by Adalbert Zimmer as a private print of 50 copies by Zimmer and Kellermann, 1979 (without place of publication).
  • Official guide through the Eifel exhibition Trier 1913, p. 52, Trier City Library 11 / 948a - 8 °.
  • German art. Handbook of artistic wall decoration. Leipzig 1915, pp. XIV, XXIV and ill. Of the Trümpers lithograph (No. 645) on p. 28.
  • Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual , second volume, fine arts. Berlin 1921, p. 610.
  • Official catalog of the "Gewerbeschau Trier 1925", August Trümper as chairman of the artists' committee (p. 13) and exhibiting artists (p. 42), Trier City Library 11 / 1916b - 8 °.
  • Wilhelm Blatt: Heimatkunst in the 1st exhibition of the Trier artists' guild. In: Kur-Trier 4th year, No. 6, November 1920, pp. 89–91 with ill. “Hof in St. Barbara”, Trier.
  • Debris, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 451 .
  • Joachim Busse: International Handbook of All Painters and Sculptors of the 19th Century, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 1259 No. 81196.
  • Reinhard Heß: Trier painter: August Trümper . In: Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch , 1979, pp. 65–67 and Fig. 15.
  • Dieter Ahrens: The work of August Trümpers in the municipal museum Simeonstift . In: Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch , 1982, pp. 69–70 and Fig. 20.
  • Dieter Ahrens: Unknown painting by August Trümper . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch , 1986, p. 13 with figs. 6-8.
  • Elisabeth Feilen: Christian Ruben and August Trümper as 'copyists' in Rome . In: Dieter Ahrens: Rooms of History - German and Roman from the 18th to the 20th century . Trier 1986, pp. 117-124.
  • Sophie Reinhardt: The "other" Trümper - impressions of his plein air painting in Rome . In: Dieter Ahrens: Rooms of History - German and Roman from the 18th to the 20th century . Trier 1986, pp. 125-131.
  • Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914 . Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, pp. 89, 933, 1019.
  • Nicolaas Teeuwisse: From the Salon to the Secession. Art life in Berlin between tradition and the dawn of modernity 1871–1900 . Berlin 1986 (annual gift of the German Association for Art History; 1985).
  • Meinrad Maria Grewenig: Max Slevogt's impressionistic image concept. In: Max Slevogt - paintings, watercolors, drawings . Exhibition catalog Saarland Museum Saarbrücken and Landesmuseum Mainz, May - September 1992, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 129–135.
  • Sabine Schroyen: Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten - a center of bourgeois culture in Düsseldorf since 1848 . Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Archivhefte 24, Cologne 1992, p. 210 (catalog no. 529).
  • Sabine Schroyen: Image sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf - artists and their works in the collections . Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Archivhefte 34, Düsseldorf 2001, pp. 340–341.
  • Christl Lehnert-Leven: The Saar near Taben - two paintings by the Trier painter August Trümper from 1925 . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch , 1995, pp. 279–283.
  • Hendrik Ziegler: The Weimar School of Painting and French Impressionism . In: The rise and fall of modernity . Exhibition catalog Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, May - November 1999, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, pp. 14–39.
  • Bärbel Schulte: Trümper, August, painter . In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon . Trier 2000, pp. 474-475.
  • Bettina Leuchtenberg: The painting class 1900–1930 . In: Bärbel Schulte (Hrsg.): "For the refinement of forms and taste education" - the Trier Werkkunstschule . Trier 2003, pp. 147–159.
  • Ursula Bartels: Trümper, August . In: Biographical directory of the teachers at the Werkkunstschule Trier 1900–1971 . In: Bärbel Schulte (Hrsg.): " For the refinement of forms and taste education" - the Trier Werkkunstschule . Trier 2003, pp. 439-440.
  • Bärbel Schulte: August Trümper . In: Inspired by inner conviction… artistic departure in the southern Rhine province after the First World War . Koblenz 2007, pp. 32-33.
  • ACID. General artist lexicon . Biobibliographical index A – Z. 2nd ext. and act. Output. 12th volume. Munich / Leipzig 2009, p. 18.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trümper personnel file of the Trier city administration (biographical information including training and activities at the Trier Crafts and Applied Arts School), Trier City Archives, Sign. 19/0694.
  2. ^ Paul Mauder: Trier painting - Trier painter groups and Trier painters . In: Trierische Heimat , 7th year, issue 7, April 1931, pp. 97–99 and issue 8/9, May / June 1931, pp. 117–119.
  3. ↑ On Pharmacist Stephan Dewald, cf. Franz Botzet: Chronicle of the community Neumagen-Dhron . Neumagen-Dhron 1991, p. 407. on Johannes Mumbauer cf. Josef Schemer: Piesport wine village . Piesport 1987, pp. 196-197.
  4. ^ Information from the artists' association Malkasten from May 11, 2013.
  5. ↑ Affidavit by the Woytt community of heirs from January 1, 1957, according to which Trümpers “bequeathed pictures to the city of Trier and the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf (as well as the books)”. Trümper personal file and letter from the former museum director Walter Dieck dated November 20, 1956, files of the museum administration 1956–1959, Trier City Archives Tc 45/4; Information from the artists' association Malkasten dated May 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ Catalog numbers 60-00001 to 60-00245 of the auction in Henry's Auktionshaus GmbH in Mutterstadt on January 6, 1992: “Estate of the painter Prof. August Trümper (1874–1956)”, private collection.
  7. ↑ In the aforementioned 1992 auction catalog, a total of 65 nudes from all creative periods were offered.
  8. ↑ E.g .: “19. Foundation festival of the art and trade association of Trier and the surrounding area, Sunday d. November 10 1901 in the Treviris club house ”, private property.
  9. ^ Gunther Franz: The letter of honorary citizenship for Franz Xaver Kraus by August Trümper. A triad of eclectic historicism . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 26, 1986, pp. 133–147, with a color illustration of the document kept in the Trier City Library, overall dimensions 74 × 48.5 cm, image area 64 × 39.4 cm, signed: “August Trümper pictor et scriptor. "
  10. ↑ Competition in the Trümper personnel file.
  11. ↑ Illustration in: Kur-Trier, 5th vol. No. 6, November 1921, p. 89.
  12. ↑ In the 1992 auction offer (as before) 18 wallpaper samples and 5 interior designs from Trümpers.
  13. ↑ August Trümper: The Roman Imperial Palace in Trier, undated (around 1912/14), color lithograph, 17.6 × 28.8 cm, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, inv. No. V 1550.
  14. ↑ Memorial site: denkmalprojekt.org St. Michael (Piesport ) and Festschrift for the Trier Art Week, published by the Trier Artists' Guild, Trier 1920, p. 51.
  15. ^ Letter from the artist dated January 13, 1919 to the mayor of Trier, in which he asks permission to carry out artistic secondary activities: For the memorial site and for church utensils (monstrance and chalice). Trümper personnel file, Trier City Archives 19/0694.
  16. ^ Franz Botzet: Chronicle of the community Neumagen-Dhron . Neumagen-Dhron 1991, p. 356 (with illustration p. 361).
personal data
SURNAME Debris, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trümper, August Julius Amandus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1956
Place of death Oberhausen