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Franz von Stuck (1863 Tettenweis/Lower Bavaria - 1928 Tetschen) "Serpentine Dancers" (originally "The Dancers"). Original title Plaster relief, painted in black and gold, 1895, signed in the background; The relief was created after lengthy studies in connection with Stuck's plans for his own villa as a complete work of art in Munich. There he used it twice: as a plaster relief in the music salon and as a slightly larger bronze relief on the garden wall. Stuck later had further examples of the plaster relief executed, which he also used to decorate other people's private rooms. The relief depicts two young women facing each other, dancing in light, wide robes; while an ornamentally decorated frame surrounds the relief on the side edges and the upper edge, the lower edge remains unadorned and thus also serves as a base for the dancers. The relief reflects both Franz von Stuck's examination of ancient dance reliefs and the modern, free dance of his time. This had been propagated since the end of the 19th century by the legendary performances of the American dancer Loïe Fuller (1862 - 1928), and later also by Isadora Duncan (1877 - 1927). As early as 1892/93, Fuller caused a sensation in Paris with her serpentine dances, impressively enhanced by light effects, in which she was clad in wide, white veil costumes, and inspired numerous artists. Even if Franz Stuck may not have seen Fuller's dances in the original, he was certainly familiar with them from reports, photographs and works by other artists. Fuller's and Duncan's dances corresponded to Stuck's own ideas and interests, as they were an expression of Dionysian joie de vivre in the spirit of antiquity, an intoxication of beauty and sensuality. He realized this in the present flat relief, which depicts the dynamic movement of the two dancers, playing with ornamental lines, symmetries and asymmetries. Approx. 62 cm x 101 cm x 3.5 cm. Further examples can be found in the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, among others. (inv. no. P 91 1-2) and in the Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund (inv. no. C 6103). Painted plaster relief, 1895, signed.

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Franz von Stuck (1863 Tettenweis/Lower Bavaria - 1928 Tetsch

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Franz von Stuck (1863 Tettenweis/Lower Bavaria - 1928 Tetschen) "Dancer". Original title Bronze, dark patina, 1897/98, signed "FRANZ STUCK", foundry mark "GUSS C. LEYRER MUNICH". Cast before 1906 (Franz von Stuck was ennobled in 1906). Franz von Stuck created the model for this bronze sculpture in 1897/98 shortly after his marriage to Mary Lindpaintner (1897), who was the model for the dynamically moving "Dancer". While the "Dancer", standing on a round plinth, performs a striding movement forwards, she turns her upper body to the right and her head to the left, while her skirt, gathered with her left hand, falls into countless fine folds. The bronze is one of a series of sculptures created by the artist in the 1890s. Unlike his "Kugelstemmenden Athleten", which was euphorically received by critics in 1892, critics were not unanimous in their assessment of the sculpture when he first showed the "Tänzerin" at the Munich Secession exhibition in 1898. Stuck had already explored the theme of dance in detail beforehand. In composing the "Dancer", he drew on the motif of the 1895 relief of dancers, which had been inspired by Loïe Fuller's veil or serpentine dances in Paris, which had caused a sensation. Around 1900, the dancer Loïe Fuller had become an internationally celebrated icon for artists, painters, sculptors, graphic artists and poets. At the same time, Franz von Stuck was influenced by the sensually intoxicating dancing maenads of ancient mythology. The "Dancer" is Stuck's freest bronze sculpture and the female counterpart to his athlete, who bore his own features. Around 1902/03, he chose the two sculptures to decorate the predella zone of his "Altar of Sin" in his studio, which was crowned by the famous Stuck painting "Sin". They are related to each other and reflect the mutual erotic attraction of man and woman. H. 62.5 cm. Selected general literature: "Offizieller Katalog der Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens (A.V.) 'Secession', Munich 1898, no. 397; Otto Julius Bierbaum: "Stuck" (Künstler-Monographien), Bielefeld and Leipzig 1899, ill. 145-146; cat. "München 1869-1958. Aufbruch zur modernen Kunst", Munich, 1958, cat. no. 977; cat. "Franz von Stuck. Werk - Persönlichkeit - Wirkung", Museum Stuck-Villa, Munich, 1968, cat. no. 7; cat. "Franz von Stuck. Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Plastik aus Privatbesitz", Aschaffenburg, Freiburg and Rosenheim, 1994, cat. no. 71; Thomas Raff: "Die Kraft des Mannes und die weiche Schmiegsamkeit des Weibes", in "Franz von Stuck: Das plastische Werk", cat. no. 71. Franz von Stuck Geburtshaus Tettenweis 2011, pp. 48-52 (with illustration). Dark patinated bronze, 1898, signed "FRANZ STUCK", foundry stamp "GUSS C. LEYRER MÜNCHEN". Cast before 1906 (Franz von Stuck was ennobled in 1906).