In 1892 Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession, and also executed his first sculpture, Athlete. In 1889 he exhibited his first paintings at the Munich Glass Palace, winning a gold medal for The Guardian of Paradise. He first became well known by cartoons for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration. In 1895 he began teaching painting at the Munich Academy. Also during 1893, Stuck was awarded a gold medal for painting at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and was appointed to a royal professorship. The next year he won further acclaim with the critical and public success of what is now his most famous work, the painting The Sin. From 1881 to 1885 Stuck attended the Munich Academy. To begin his artistic education he relocated in 1878 to Munich, where he would settle for life. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. Self Portrait with his wife in the studioįranz Ritter von Stuck (Febru– August 30, 1928), born Franz Stuck and ennobled in 1906, was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Three Goddesses - Athena, Hera and Aphrodite Portrait of Franz and Mary as Emperor and Empress Stuck paid close attention to the frames for his paintings and generally designed them himself with such careful use of panels, gilt carving and inscriptions that the frames must be taken as an integral part of the overall piece.Self-portrait of the artist and his wife in their studio His seductive female nudes, in the role of the femme fatale, are a prime example of popular Symbolist content. Large, heavy forms dominate most of his paintings and point toward his proclivities for sculpture. Stuck's subject matter was primarily drawn from mythology, inspired by the work of Arnold Böcklin. Among Von Stuck's architectural creations is the Villa Stuck Prinzregentenstrasse, Munich, which is now a museum. Some of his pupils at the academy included Klee, Albers, and Kandinsky. Around 1895 he began teaching at the Munich academy that he once attended. These did much to establish his reputation as both a skilled and a witty draughtsman.Īround 1892 he became one of the founders of the Munich Sezession and his Symbolist period is also of this decade.
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From 1881 to 1885 he studied at the Munich Akademie, where he was taught by Wilhelm Lindenschmit (1829-1895) and Ferdinand Löfftz (1845-1910).ĭuring his student years Stuck earned a living from designs for decorative painting, and he made notable contributions (1880-84) to the humorous Munich periodical Fliegende Blätter and to the Viennese serial publications Allegorien und Embleme and Karten und Vignetten. From 1878 to 1881 he attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, where he received particular encouragement from Ferdinand Barth (1842-1892). He drew eagerly as a child, soon becoming a gifted caricaturist.
He was noted for his treatment of erotic and comic aspects of mythological themes. German draughtsman, illustrator, printmaker, decorative artist, painter, sculptor and architect.
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