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FRANZ VON STUCK (1863-1928) INTERNATIONALE HYGIENE AUSSTELLUNG DRESDEN. 1911.
35x23 3/4 inches. Leutert & Schneidewing, Dresden.
Condition B+: horizontal and vertical folds; creases in image.
A painter, architect and graphic designer, von Stuck was a founding member of the Munich Secession in 1893 and a cartoonist for the magazine Jugend. He later became a professor at the Akademie. This idea of a striking object against a blue background with surrounding antique Greek columns is not Stuck's invention. Sutterlin used the same concept in 1896 in Berlin for a building exhibition, using as his central motif a hand with a hammer. But von Stuck's image, with a huge eye watching passers-by, was much stronger and proved to be a tremendous success. An image that obviously fascinated the surrealists (and perhaps had its roots in Masonic imagery), it was stolen by a cigarette company, cartooned in Die Lustige Blatter and later, in 1930, was revamped by Billy Petzold for the same exhibition. It is a poster that made history and is history.
ref: Plakate in Munchen, Munchen Stadt Museum, 1975. cat. no. 300, p. 33, story p. 31-33.
Condition B+: horizontal and vertical folds; creases in image.
A painter, architect and graphic designer, von Stuck was a founding member of the Munich Secession in 1893 and a cartoonist for the magazine Jugend. He later became a professor at the Akademie. This idea of a striking object against a blue background with surrounding antique Greek columns is not Stuck's invention. Sutterlin used the same concept in 1896 in Berlin for a building exhibition, using as his central motif a hand with a hammer. But von Stuck's image, with a huge eye watching passers-by, was much stronger and proved to be a tremendous success. An image that obviously fascinated the surrealists (and perhaps had its roots in Masonic imagery), it was stolen by a cigarette company, cartooned in Die Lustige Blatter and later, in 1930, was revamped by Billy Petzold for the same exhibition. It is a poster that made history and is history.
ref: Plakate in Munchen, Munchen Stadt Museum, 1975. cat. no. 300, p. 33, story p. 31-33.
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