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Franz von Stuck November 2, 2013February 2, 2014
After his American debut at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Franz von Stuck (18631928) was praised by critics as "one of the most versatile and ingenious of contemporary German artists." The renowned Symbolist painter, architect, designer, and cofounder of the Munich Secession then exhibited his most famous painting, Sin, an iconic work of the fin de siècle, at the Third Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1898. Two years later, at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, Stuck was awarded a gold medal for furniture he designed for his magnificent villa in Munich, a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. In 1909, he was included in the Exhibition of Contemporary German Art which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Copley Society in Boston. The same year he was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth and the 120th anniversary of his American debut, Franz von Stuck is celebrated in the first monographic exhibition dedicated to his accomplishments in the United States. A joint project of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, the exhibition showcases his graphic and architectural design and his photography, as well as spectacular canvases that generated both praise and disdain among American critics of his day for their "cachet of strangeness, which comes from a modern treatment of legendary, biblical, mystic or symbolic subjects." These masterworks include Lucifer, 1890, from the National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Pietà, 1891, from the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Wild Chase, 1899, from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France; Sin, ca. 1908, from the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and Inferno, 1908, from the Mugrabi Collection.
The exhibition Franz von Stuck is accompanied by a catalogue that examines Stuck's theory of the spatial qualities of color; his influence on Josef Albers, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee; his breach with naturalism; and his willing embrace of the transformative ideas of his day as articulated by Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Wagner. The handsome, fully-illustrated 172-page publication documents for the first time Stuck's participation in major international exhibitions in the United States and the reception of his work in the New World.
Franz von Stuck is organized by the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, and the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. The exhibition is curated by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and is funded by the Frye Foundation with the generous support of Frye Art Museum members and donors. It is sponsored by Nitze-Stagen and BNY Mellon Wealth Management. Seasonal support is provided by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, and ArtsFund. News Media Sponsorship is provided by The Seattle Times. Broadcast Media Sponsorship is provided by Classical KING FM.
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