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Franz von Stuck
In his American debut at the 1893 World鈥檚 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Franz von Stuck (1863鈥�1928) was awarded a gold medal and praised by contemporary critics as 鈥渙ne of the most versatile and ingenious of contemporary German artists.鈥� Painter, architect, designer, and cofounder of the Munich Secession, Stuck was an influential teacher of artists studying at the Munich Academy including Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. In 1898, Stuck exhibited his most famous painting, Sin, an iconic work of the fin de si猫cle, at the Third Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Two years later, at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Stuck was awarded the gold medal for furniture he designed for his magnificent Villa in Munich, itself a Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art. In 1909, Stuck presented a number of his paintings, including the compelling Infernal Regions, at an exhibition of Contemporary German Art which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago. The same year he was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, Franz von Stuck will be celebrated in the first monographic exhibition of his work in the United States. A joint project of the Frye Art Museum Seattle and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, the exhibition will showcase masterworks by Stuck from leading museums in Europe and the United States. It will be accompanied by a publication that will record for the first time Stuck鈥檚 participation in the major international exhibitions of his day in the United States, and document the reception of his work in the New World.
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In his American debut at the 1893 World鈥檚 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Franz von Stuck (1863鈥�1928) was awarded a gold medal and praised by contemporary critics as 鈥渙ne of the most versatile and ingenious of contemporary German artists.鈥� Painter, architect, designer, and cofounder of the Munich Secession, Stuck was an influential teacher of artists studying at the Munich Academy including Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. In 1898, Stuck exhibited his most famous painting, Sin, an iconic work of the fin de si猫cle, at the Third Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Two years later, at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Stuck was awarded the gold medal for furniture he designed for his magnificent Villa in Munich, itself a Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art. In 1909, Stuck presented a number of his paintings, including the compelling Infernal Regions, at an exhibition of Contemporary German Art which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago. The same year he was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, Franz von Stuck will be celebrated in the first monographic exhibition of his work in the United States. A joint project of the Frye Art Museum Seattle and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, the exhibition will showcase masterworks by Stuck from leading museums in Europe and the United States. It will be accompanied by a publication that will record for the first time Stuck鈥檚 participation in the major international exhibitions of his day in the United States, and document the reception of his work in the New World.
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