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POSTER: FRANZ VON STUCK (1863-1928) INTERNATIONALE HYGIENE AUSSTELLUNG DRESDEN. 1911. 22x17 inches. Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin.
FRANZ VON STUCK (1863-1928) INTERNATIONALE HYGIENE AUSSTELLUNG DRESDEN. 1911.
22 7/8x17 5/8 inches. Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin.
Condition A-: minor tears in margins. Japan.
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 for a building exhibition in Berlin, 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. This is the smaller German version. DFP III 3221 (var), Rademacher p. 60 (var), Affiches Mirroir 45, Munich 300.
22 7/8x17 5/8 inches. Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin.
Condition A-: minor tears in margins. Japan.
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 for a building exhibition in Berlin, 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. This is the smaller German version. DFP III 3221 (var), Rademacher p. 60 (var), Affiches Mirroir 45, Munich 300.
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