Emil Stumpp Archive

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The Emil Stumpp Archive is an art collection in Gelnhausen .

history

When the graphic artist Emil Stumpp died in 1941 during his stay in the Stuhm prison , his professional estate was not in the family's Königsberg apartment, but in Stumpp's Berlin studio. The extensive estate fell to Stumpp's daughter Hedwig, who worked in Berlin, and her husband, the composer Kurt Schwaen . The house and studio on Offenbacher Strasse were badly damaged in a bomb attack and a small part of the estate was destroyed. Kurt Schwaen, who had meanwhile been drafted into the Wehrmacht, was given a “bomb vacation” and was able to spend the preserved archive in the cellar of the house.

As early as June 1945, Hedwig and Kurt Schwaen were able to organize the first Stumpp exhibition in Berlin after the Second World War and find new accommodation options for the archive. To manage three archive moves within one year in the devastated Berlin was an achievement that is hardly imaginable today. The Emil Stumpp Archive was later moved to the Märkisches Museum and the Zeughaus (later the German Historical Museum ) and finally to Schwaen in Berlin-Mahlsdorf ; A pavilion was set up in the garden to accommodate the archive.

present

The archive has been with Stumpp's nephew Michael Stumpp since the mid-1990s, initially in Birstein and since 1998 in Gelnhausen . In addition to several thousand originals, it contains numerous lithographs , drawings , watercolors , diaries and letters. Parts of the estate - including around 340 drawings, lithographs and diaries - are in the Institute for Newspaper Research in Dortmund .

literature

  • Detlef Brennecke (ed.): Emil Stumpp - A draftsman of his time. Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8012-0135-X .

Web links

Commons : Emil Stumpp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Schwaen had after 1933 as a Communist in prison is eating and was at the end of the " Third Reich particularly at risk." In April 1945 he was able to go into hiding in Berlin and survive the end of the war.
  2. ^ Communication from M. Stumpp, Gelnhausen

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '8.6 "  N , 9 ° 12' 2.8"  E