Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg

Background

Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg grew up in Wuppertal, Germany, the son of a school headmaster.

Education

He attended evening classes at the Royal Provincial Vocational School in Elberfeld, where he received his first lessons in drawing and painting.

Career

He spent the years 1874 and 1877 studying in Bad Kreuznach, in the sculpture workshop of the brothers Robert and Karl Cauer. He then further developed his craft in 1878 under Melchior zur Strassen in the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts and until 1880 in the Academy of Arts, Berlin with Otto Knille and Fritz Schaper. In 1892, the artist returned to Berlin.

In 1917, he fell seriously ill and died during a visit to his hometown of Elberfeld.

His tomb is located in the Lutheran cemetery in Wuppertal-Elberfeld.

Achievements

• In 1885, he won the Rome Scholarship from the Prussian Academy of Arts for his thesis, "The Judgment of Paris".