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Born in Altona, August Trümper completed a three-year apprenticeship with the Hamburg decorative and theatre painter G. Strube as his basic artistic training and attended the General Trade School there until autumn 1894, followed by studies at the teaching institute of the Berli Museum of Applied Arts from 1896 with a state scholarship, which enabled him to go on several study trips, including a three-month stay in Rome in 1898. After graduating in July 1899, he worked for two years as an assistant at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.

August Trümper favoured a loose style of painting applied in short brushstrokes in a rather restrained colouring. It can predominantly be categorised as German Late Impressionism, with a clear influence from the art of the Berlin Secession, whose conflict-laden founding phase and first heyday he had experienced during his student years in Berlin. From 1901, Trümper lived in Trier until his retirement in December 1930 as head of the crafts and arts and crafts school there. He then moved to Düsseldorf with his wife Wilhelmine (known as Mina) Woytt, to whom he had been married since 1904.
The present picture from 1914 shows the young wife in profile - effectively against a floral background and with a fine lace bonnet.