Full Name: Rumpf, Andreas
Gender: male
Date Born: 1890
Date Died: 1966
Place Born: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Place Died: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, ceramic ware (visual works), Classical, mural paintings (visual works), painting (visual works), pottery (visual works), Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), vase, and vase paintings (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in ancient Greek and Roman art, particularly vase painting and Greek wall painting. Rumpf was the son of the artist Fritz Rumpf. Rumpf was editor of the influential Griechische und römische Kunst (1932, part of the Einleitung in der Altertumswissenschaft series). Professor at the University of Cologne (Institut für Klassische Archëologie) (1928-1960). Upon his retirement in 1960 he was succeeded at the University at Cologne by Heinz Kähler.
Selected Bibliography
Classical and Post-Classical Greek Painting, in: JHS 67, 1947, 10 ff.; Griechische und Römische Kunst. 1932; Diligentissime mulieries pinxit, in: JdI 49, 1934, 6 ff.; Malerei und Zeichnung, in: HdArch IV (I) 1953.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 252-253.