Franz von StuckAlemania, Austria, 1863–1928Amazon
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About the sculpture
As both a founder of the Munich Secession and an influential teacher at the city’s Royal Academy (where his students included Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky), Franz von Stuck was a central figure in Munich’s art world at the turn of the twentieth century. His modern interpretation of the antique in works such as this sculpture and painting brought him particular success. Wounded Amazon (2002.96) depicts a battle between Amazons and centaurs; the particular subject is not found in classical mythology but is of the artist’s own invention. Though he was clearly influenced by the antiquities in Munich’s Glyptothek museum, Stuck based the painting on photographic studies of a model posed in his studio. Ever since he had featured the goddess Athena on the poster for the first Munich Secession exhibition in 1893, classical female warriors had appeared in his work as symbols of the new art.
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There are two other versions of this painting, and the artist eventually produced three life-sized versions of the sculpture (2003.132). One was installed outside Villa Stuck, the home he had designed for himself in Munich.
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Mientras tanto, en la vida de Franz von Stuck
La vida entera1895
Professor at the Munich Academy
From 1895 he teaches painting at the Munich Academy; his students include Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Hans Purrmann, Josef Hengge, Georg Kars, Paul Stollreither, Heinrich Strieffler and Alf Bayrle. Young artists go on respecting him as a professor even after his style falls out of fashion.
1897
Begins work on the Villa Stuck
He begins designing his own residence and studio, the Villa Stuck, on Prinzregentenstrasse in Bogenhausen (Munich): everything from the layout to the interior decoration, with furniture and sculptures of his own design. The villa gives form to the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk”, combining the aesthetics of Jugendstil with reverence for antiquity.
1897
Marries Mary Lindpaintner
Marries the American widow Mary Lindpaintner; her son, the future aviation pioneer and racing driver Otto Lindpaintner, becomes his stepson. A year earlier, in 1896, the artist's only daughter, Mary (1896–1961), had been born of his relationship with Anna Maria Brandmaier (1875–1944).
1900
Gold medal at the Paris World Exposition
He receives a gold medal at the Paris World Exposition for his furniture — he had designed the Villa Stuck entirely himself, from the layout to the furnishings.
1903
Co-founder of the German Artists' Association
He becomes one of the founders of the German Artists' Association (Deutscher Künstlerbund) and sits on its extended board as a member of the jury.
9 December 1905
Ennobled: “Ritter von Stuck”
Prince Regent Luitpold awards him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, which confers personal nobility; after registration in the nobility roll on 2 January 1906 he is entitled to call himself “Ritter von Stuck” (other accounts date the order to 1906).
