STUCK, stank, FRANZ (1863— ). A German painter and sculptor, one of the leaders of the so-called Secessionists (q.v.). Born at Tetten weis. Bavaria. he studied at the Munich Academy under Lindenschmit, and became first known through his drawings for the Fliegende Blutter, and the two series of art-industrial designs which appeared in Vienna under the titles Allegorien amid Emblemc and Titel mind lignetten. rugged rather than refilled, but full of vitality and bold in treatment. This first paintings. "The Guardian of Paradise," " nnocent ia." and "Fighting Fauns,' exhibited in Munich in 1889. were awarded the gold. medal. initiating a series of artistic attendant upon his well-known landscapes enliv ened with centaurs, fauns, and nymphs, and his impressive delineations of human passions, of which the figure of "Sin" (1893), Eve enfolded by a huge serpent, and, on a larger scale, the alle gory of "War" ( 1S94), both in the Pinakothek at Munich, have become particularly famous. In the
meanwhile he had painted "Expulsion from Paradise," a "Pieth" (1892). and "Crucifixion" (1892, Stuttgart Museum ), a startling deviation from the traditional treatment of this subject.
A marked progress in the artist's power of ex pre*sion was shown in The Sphinx" (1895, Na tional Museum. Budapest), "Evil Conscience" (1896), and "Procession of Bacchants" (1897). His plastic work, all small figures in bronze, ex hibits the same powerful realism in the treat ment of form as do his paintings. A character istic example is the statuette of a "Faun" (Na tional Gallery, Berlin: replicas Kunsthalle, Ham burg, and National Museum, Budapest). Consult the monographs by Bierbaum (Leipzig. Meissner (Berlin. 1399), and Weese (Vienna, 1903) ; also Schultze-Naumburg, in Magazine of Art. vol. xx. (London. 1896-97).