Marie Stump

Marie Stumpe (born July 5, 1877 in Bremen , † December 16, 1946 in the USA ) was a German painter.

Life

Marie Stumpe Hunte near Dötlingen

Marie Stumpe White Lilies

Fritz Cobet Siegmund Stumpe

Marie Stumpes grave complex in Dötlingen

1877 was Marie Docke's year of birth. Her father Bernhard Wilhelm Docke from Bremen was an export merchant and internationally active with his own properties in the former German South West Africa. Marie married the tobacco broker Siegmund Stumpe, Bremen / Copenhagen. From 1905 to 1906 Marie Stumpe, also known as Mieze Stumpe, was Georg Müller vom Siel's painting student . She lived in the artists' colony Dötlingen from 1905 to 1936. Marie Stumpe came from a wealthy family and her husband was financially independent as a successful tobacco importer. A rural summer house was not uncommon in upper-class Hanseatic circles. So he agreed to his wife's wish that she wanted to stay in Dötlingen permanently .

Marie Stumpe enjoyed life in Dötlingen. Her husband mostly stayed in Bremen to take care of business; he usually only came on the weekends. In order not to get lonely and to gain inspiration for her art, Marie Stumpe invited fellow artists to Dötlingen. They could spend the summer in their house. The artists who lived with her included the Bremen painter Fritz Cobet (1885–1963) and the Berlin artist Otto Heinrich (1891–1967). The Bremen painters Toni Elster (1861–1948) and Anna Feldhusen (1867–1951) also made repeated visits.

In the first ten years, Marie Stumpe spent a happy time with her four children in the "gold mountains" of Dötlingen. Her husband was successful in business - especially during World War I. They had no financial worries.

But the end of the war and the inflation that followed brought the financial crash. Siegmund and Marie Stumpe lost their fortune. Siegmund Stumpe died in 1930, seven years later Marie Stumpe had to sell her house in Dötlingen to the Bremen shipowner Richard Adler.

She never returns to Germany after visiting her first son Siegmund (named after his father) in the United States in 1939. She died on December 16, 1946, her urn was buried in 1947 in the Dötlinger Friedhof.

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Marie (Mieze) Stumpe's work is largely unknown. Individual works are scattered in the Dötlinger private property and in the family area. The community of Dötlingen has few paintings, including the painting White Lilies as a loan , which documents high painting skills and which hung for a long time in the Dötlingen church. Your entire work is lost.

literature

• Heinrich Poppe / Horst Wichmann: New Dötlinger village book . ISBN 3-87358-113-2 .
• Nils Aschenbeck : Dötlingen artists' colony . ISBN 3-932292-78-2 .
• Gerhard Wietek : 200 years of painting in the Oldenburger Land . ISBN 3-9801191-0-6 .