Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German painter.

[citation needed] Born on 29 August in Hagen, Germany, as the third child of Anna and Emil Schumacher.

[citation needed] 1939–1945: Service obligation as draftsman in an arms factory, the Akkumulatoren–Werke of Hagen.

[citation needed] 1954: Participates in the Willem Sandberg exhibition Deutsche Kunst nach 45 (German Art after 1945) at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: for the first time after World War II, Contemporary German Art is shown abroad.

[6] 1955: Participates in the exhibition Peintures et sculptures non-figuratives en Allemagne d’aujourd’hui in Paris.

This is the first time, 10 years after the war's end, that René Drouin shows contemporary German art at the Cercle Volney in France.

[citation needed] 1956: While searching for new media and materials, Schumacher creates his first 'Tastobjekte' (tactile objects).

[citation needed] 1959: Participates in the documenta II in Kassel, Germany, as well as the V. São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil.

[11] 1974: Autumn stay in Cunardo, Lago Maggiore where the first ceramics are created in Ceramica Ibis.

[citation needed] 1983: Travels to Marocco where Suite Maroc, encompassing 36 pages, is created.

Design and creation of a 20 m long ceramic wall in the new building of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.

[citation needed] 1991: Guest professorship at the Concorso Superiore Internazionale del Disegno of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy.

[17] 1999: Member of the Academy of the Arts of Saxony (Sächsische Akademie der Künste), Dresden, Germany.

[citation needed] 1948: Kunstpreis junger westen from the city of Recklinghausen, Germany.

1958: Karl Ernst Osthaus Preis (Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Award), Hagen, Germany.

1959: Award from the Japanese Cultural Minister in celebration of the V. International Art Exhibition, Tokyo.

1962: First prize silver medal, Bang Danh-Du Award in celebration of the 1st International Arts Exhibition, Saigon, Vietnam.

1963: Großer Kunstpreis (Great Art Award) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany.