Emil Stumpp

Emil Stumpp (17 March 1886 – 5 April 1941) was a German painter, teacher, and artist known for his cartoons and drawings of well-known people in the 1930s during the Weimar Republic.

[1] Stumpp was born in Neckarzimmern in southwestern Germany, but he moved with his family at the age of three to Worms.

[2] He was successful and created portraits of many well known people including Bertold Brecht, Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Mendelsohn, Chancellor Friedrich Ebert, Alfons Paquet, Thomas Mann,[2] Otto Braun[3] and Else Lasker-Schüler,[4] Le Corbusier.

The work was not well received and the portrait, Stumpp, his paper (the General Anzeiger), and its editor were all prohibited.

Weakened by malnutrition and mistreatment, he died of pneumonia in Stuhm prison in West Prussia in 1941.