Franz Stuck (1863 - 1928), German symbolist/expressionist painter, was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria, and received his artistic training at the Munich Academy. 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... La mort du fossoyeur by Carlos Schwabe is a visual compendium of Symbolist motifs. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) was founded 1808 by Maximilian I of Bavaria in Munich as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 1946, the Academy was merged with the schools for arts-and-crafts and applied arts...

He first made a name with his illustrations for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration. He did not devote himself to painting till after 1889, the year in which he achieved a marked success with his first picture, "The Warder of Paradise." 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

His style in painting is based on a thorough mastery of design, and is sculptural rather than pictorial. His favourite subjects are of mythological and allegorical character, but in his treatment of time-worn motifs he is altogether unconventional. A statuette of an athlete, bronze casts of which are at the Berlin and Budapest national galleries and the Hamburg Museum, affords convincing proof of his talent for plastic art. Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Budapest (pronounced or ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ...

Among his paintings the best known are "Sin" and "War," at the Munich Pinakothek, "The Sphinx," "The Crucifixion," "The Rivals," Paradise Lost, "Oedipus," "Temptation," and "Lucifer." Though Stuck was one of the leaders of the Munich Sezession, he enjoyed an appointment of professor at the academy.

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