Otto Rumpf

Otto Rumpf: Emperor Friedrich II at the Annweiler town hall , signed figure outside

War memorial Neuleiningen , by Otto Rumpf, 1964

Otto Rumpf (born September 27, 1902 in Obermoschel , † October 3, 1984 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German sculptor .

Life

He was the progenitor of the Rumpf family of sculptors from Kaiserslautern . He was married to the sculptor Martha Jung (1910–1996). Both sons are the sculptor Gernot Rumpf .

Otto Rumpf first learned in the sculpture workshop of his father Ludwig Rumpf, from 1926 to 1933 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a student of Hermann Hahn . From 1934 to 1943 he headed the sculpture department of the master school for handicrafts in Kaiserslautern . Erich Koch was one of his students here from 1938 to 1942 , and from 1975 to 1990 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

After military service and imprisonment, Otto Rumpf founded his own workshop in Lachen-Speyerdorf in 1946 (since 1969 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ). In addition to his artistic activities, he taught again at the Kaiserslautern Master School from 1960–1965.

Works

1951: Emperor Friedrich II , exterior figure at Annweiler town hall

1953: Europa on the bull , Electoral Palace Koblenz (sculpture on the northern staircase, interior)

1964: War memorial Neuleiningen , St. Georg

literature

Hull, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 131 .
Viktor Carl: Lexikon Pfälzer Personalitäten Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 734
Werner Hänsler: From the work of a Palatinate artist. Short visit to Otto Rumpf in his studio in Lachen . In: Pfälzer Tageblatt and Speyerer Tagespost from July 26, 1958

Web links

Data on Otto Rumpf and his family members

Individual evidence

↑ Pfalz Verkehrsverband, Pfälzerwald-Verein: Die Pfalz am Rhein: Volumes 40–41, 1967: “By Gernot Rumpf, the son of the sculptor Otto Rumpf, who in turn comes from a family of sculptors in Kaiserslautern, the Mainz exhibition shows a variety of creative samples, more vividly and graphic type: ... "
↑ Kunstportal Pfalz

personal data
SURNAME	Hull, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Upper moschel
DATE OF DEATH	3rd October 1984
Place of death	Bad Dürkheim

[1] Pfalz Verkehrsverband, Pfälzerwald-Verein: Die Pfalz am Rhein: Volumes 40–41, 1967: “By Gernot Rumpf, the son of the sculptor Otto Rumpf, who in turn comes from a family of sculptors in Kaiserslautern, the Mainz exhibition shows a variety of creative samples, more vividly and graphic type: ... "

[2] Kunstportal Pfalz