Lot 356 
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356
Franz von Stuck
Kämpfende Faune, 1898.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 77,000 Sold:
€ 114,300 / $ 125,730 (incl. surcharge)
Kämpfende Faune. 1898.
Oil on panel.
Lower right signed. With old numbered labels and hand-written numbers on the reverse. 57 x 80 cm (22.4 x 31.4 in).
In the original frame by Hans Irlbacher, Munich (with the label).
• The fauns are an important motif in Stuck's oeuvre and can be read as one of the artist's mythological 'alter egos'.
• Wonderful luminous coloration in the interplay of landscape, figure and sky.
• One of the most successful depictions of the central theme of the "Fighting Fauns".
• A first version of the motif can be found in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Fritz Reimann Collection (1862-1913), Elberfeld (until 1908).
Städtisches Museum Elberfeld/Barmen (gifted from Rudolf von Baum in 1908, until 1956).
Private collection (acquired from the above in August 1956).
Private collection Bavaria.
LITERATURE: Heinrich Voss, Franz von Stuck 1863-1928. Catalog of paintings with an introduction into his Symbolism, Munich 1973, no. 184/100 (fig.).
Franz Hermann Meißner, Franz Stuck. Das Künstlerbuch III, Berlin/Leipzig 1899, pp. 64f.
Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 18, 1902/03, p. 292.
Artur Weese: Franz Stuck: eine Analyse, in: Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst (ed.), Die Graphischen Künste, vol. 26, 1903, illu. p. 15.
Fritz von Ostini, Franz von Stuck. Das Gesamtwerk, Munich 1909, p. 74 (illu.).
Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, N.F. 19.1908, issue 17, 28. February 1908, col. 299.
Die Werkstatt der Kunst: Organ für d. Interessen d. bildenden Künstler, 7.1907/1908, issue 24, March 16, 1908, col. 331.
Katalog des Städtisches Museums Elberfeld, Die Reimann-Sammlung, Elberfeld no date (ca. 1920), no. 148.
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Stuck, Bielefeld/Leipzig 1924, pp. 105, 110, illu. 101, p. 93.
Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, Hans Vollmer (ed.), Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. 32: Stephens-Theodotos, Leipzig 1938, p. 233.
Claudia Gross-Roath, Das Frauenbild bei Franz von Stuck, Weimar 1999, p. 215.
Oil on panel.
Lower right signed. With old numbered labels and hand-written numbers on the reverse. 57 x 80 cm (22.4 x 31.4 in).
In the original frame by Hans Irlbacher, Munich (with the label).
• The fauns are an important motif in Stuck's oeuvre and can be read as one of the artist's mythological 'alter egos'.
• Wonderful luminous coloration in the interplay of landscape, figure and sky.
• One of the most successful depictions of the central theme of the "Fighting Fauns".
• A first version of the motif can be found in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Fritz Reimann Collection (1862-1913), Elberfeld (until 1908).
Städtisches Museum Elberfeld/Barmen (gifted from Rudolf von Baum in 1908, until 1956).
Private collection (acquired from the above in August 1956).
Private collection Bavaria.
LITERATURE: Heinrich Voss, Franz von Stuck 1863-1928. Catalog of paintings with an introduction into his Symbolism, Munich 1973, no. 184/100 (fig.).
Franz Hermann Meißner, Franz Stuck. Das Künstlerbuch III, Berlin/Leipzig 1899, pp. 64f.
Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 18, 1902/03, p. 292.
Artur Weese: Franz Stuck: eine Analyse, in: Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst (ed.), Die Graphischen Künste, vol. 26, 1903, illu. p. 15.
Fritz von Ostini, Franz von Stuck. Das Gesamtwerk, Munich 1909, p. 74 (illu.).
Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, N.F. 19.1908, issue 17, 28. February 1908, col. 299.
Die Werkstatt der Kunst: Organ für d. Interessen d. bildenden Künstler, 7.1907/1908, issue 24, March 16, 1908, col. 331.
Katalog des Städtisches Museums Elberfeld, Die Reimann-Sammlung, Elberfeld no date (ca. 1920), no. 148.
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Stuck, Bielefeld/Leipzig 1924, pp. 105, 110, illu. 101, p. 93.
Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, Hans Vollmer (ed.), Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. 32: Stephens-Theodotos, Leipzig 1938, p. 233.
Claudia Gross-Roath, Das Frauenbild bei Franz von Stuck, Weimar 1999, p. 215.
"But the whole world was talking about the young painter, who immediately appeared with such decided independence and offered so many things at once: Apparitions from the mythical world of antiquity, nymphs, fauns and centaurs, all bursting with full-blooded life and blossoming in a full-blooded sensuality free from lechery; scenes from Paradise Lost, which were connected with that great exhibition painting; all kinds of romantic things; landscapes of a highly heightened, in its way also monumentalized mood; etchings, a few still lifes, etc. And all this was of a powerful new colorfulness, the language of which changed with the subject, sometimes tingling and vibrating, then rich and juicy, then calmly tonal, as in a few dusky landscapes, then glowing, as in the evening picture with the lonely rider, This debutant, who was already an accomplished artist, could still become anything: a great landscapist, a captivating fantasist, a master of the monumental."
Fritz von Ostini, Franz von Stuck: Gesamtwerk, Munich 1909, p. VIII, on Stuck's exhibiiton at the Munich Kunstverein 1891.
Fritz von Ostini, Franz von Stuck: Gesamtwerk, Munich 1909, p. VIII, on Stuck's exhibiiton at the Munich Kunstverein 1891.
356
Franz von Stuck
Kämpfende Faune, 1898.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 70,000 / $ 77,000 Sold:
€ 114,300 / $ 125,730 (incl. surcharge)