Walter Stuempfig (January 26, 1914 – November 29, 1970) was an American artist and teacher.
[1] He was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 26, 1914, to a moderately wealthy family.
After graduation from the Germantown Academy, he enrolled as an architecture student in the University of Pennsylvania.
In October 1931 he transferred to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where his instructors included Henry McCarter, Daniel Garber, and Francis Speight.
[3] He painted figure compositions, landscapes and architectural subjects, still lifes, and portraits; all in a style of romantic realism that fell outside the artistic mainstream of his time.