About

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Krumpholz Enterprises

We ponder. We innovate. We design. We amaze. 

Hermann Krumpholz began his career as an artist in the German state of Bavaria.

He attended the Art Academie in Munich where he studied fine arts and received formal training in architectural styles and the art of set design and cascheur.   He also developed skill in creating sculptures from clay and plaster.

While in Germany, he worked at the Richard Wagner Bayreuther Festspielhaus (festival house) where he created scenic designs and backdrops, and later he was hired to work at the Opera House in Augsburg. Hermann studied the art of architectural and illustrative drawings and used this skill to recreate old world structures as well as design modern interior and exterior living spaces.

Believing that "one's land of birth is not necessarily one's spiritual home," Hermann planned his move to the United States.   Here, in America, he worked as a pictorial artist with one of the leading billboard companies.   His gigantic creations graced the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for 30 years.  Click here to see billboards hand painted in oil by Hermann Krumpholz.

Today, Hermann Krumpholz creates large oil paintings and murals for restaurants, private homes, and public places.  He also restores and reproduces historic artwork.   He is known for his skill in reproducing fine art and his control of the technique of trompe l'oeil1. Hermann recently helped restore a pre-World War I German beer hall in the basement cafeteria of the Minnesota State Capitol Building.

1The Funk & Wagnalls dictionary defines trompe l'oeil as "the accurate representation of details, scenes, etc., to create an illusion of reality" in art and decoration.