Otto Rumpf (27 September 1902 – 3 October 1984) was a German sculptor.
Life
Born in Obermoschel, Rumpf was the progenitor of the Kaiserslautern Rumpf family of sculptors. He was married to the sculptor Martha Jung (1910–1996). Their son is the sculptor Gernot Rumpf.
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 "Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerk" in Kaiserslautern. Among his students here from 1938 to 1942 was Erich Koch, in the years 1975 to 1990 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
After military service and imprisonment, Rumpf founded his own workshop in in 1946 (since 1969 part of Neustadt an der Weinstraße). In addition to his artistic activities, he taught again at the Kaiserslautern master school from 1960-1965.
Rumpd died in Bad Dürkheim at the age of 82.
Work
1951: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Außenfigur am Rathaus Annweiler
1953: Europa auf dem Stier, Electoral Palace, Koblenz (Skulptur am nördlichen Treppenaufgang, Innenbereich) 1964: Kriegerdenkmal Neuleiningen, St. Georg
References
Further reading
Rumpf, Otto
Viktor Carl: Lexikon Pfälzer Personlichkeiten Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, , Werner Hänsler: Vom Schaffen eines Pfälzer Künstlers. Kurzer Besuch bei Otto Rumpf in seinem Lachener Atelier. In Die Rheinpfalz and the Speyerer Tagespost, 26 July 1958