Friday, September 17, 2021

Franz von Stuck (Hitler's Favorite Painter)

Franz von Stuck
Tilla Durieux as Circe
1913
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Franz von Stuck
Tilla Durieux as Circe
ca. 1912-13
pastel
private collection

Franz von Stuck
Sisyphus
1920
oil on canvas
Galerie Ritthaler, Hamburg

Franz von Stuck
Wounded Amazon
1905
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Franz von Stuck
International Health Exposition, Dresden
1911
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Franz von Stuck
The Dance
ca. 1910
oil on cardboard
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Franz von Stuck
Satyr and Siren
1918
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Franz von Stuck
Study of Studio Model
ca. 1908
drawing
private collection

Franz von Stuck
Spring
ca. 1912
oil on panel
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

Franz von Stuck
Family Group
(the artist with his wife
and daughter in Velazquez costume)
1909
oil on canvas
Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Brussels

Franz von Stuck
Portrait of Gertrud Littmann
1911
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Franz von Stuck
Portrait of Marianne Mechler
1924
oil on canvas
private collection

Franz von Stuck
Portrait of Professor Lujo Brentano
1914
oil on panel
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Franz von Stuck
The Judgement of Paris
1923
oil on panel
Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Franz von Stuck
Golgotha
1917
oil on canvas
Brooklyn Museum

In The Psychopathic God (1977) Robert Wait popularized the well-documented fact that the work of Franz von Stuck of Munich (1863-1928) was a lifelong favorite of that aspiring but unsuccessful Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler.