Franz Stuck

The son of a miller, Stuck was born in Tettenweis in Bavaria and spent most of his life in Munich. He moved to the Bavarian capital in 1878 to study art, and three years later enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he later became a teacher and finally director. His students at the Academy included such celebrities as Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. He established his reputation in 1882 with his illustrations for the book Allegories and Emblems published by Gerlach & Schenk, made together with Gustav Klimt. In 1892 he was one of the co-founders of the group called the Munich Secession, which broke away from the Munich Artists’ Association driven by a desire for artistic freedom. The Munich Secession also contributed to the creation of other artistic factions, for example in Vienna (1897) and Berlin (1898), and these groups of artists contributed greatly to laying the foundations of modern art.

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