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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
FRANZ VON STUCK (1863-1928) MUENCHNER SECESSION KOLLEKTIV AUSTELLUNGEN. Circa 1905. 271/4x371/4 inches. C. Wolf, Munich. Condition B: tears and tape stains in margins; creases in image; tape on verso; plastic strip affixed to top margin. Paper. Franz Von Stück painted the head of the Greek Goddess Athena in 1891. In 1893, the head of the goddess became the emblem of the Münich Secession when Von Stück officially co-founded the movement and used it on a poster advertising the group's first international exhibition. (In Vienna, 5 years later, Athena Pallas became an emblem of that city's Secession movement as well, with the painting by Gustav Klimt and Klimt's subsequent use of the Goddess on his Secession posters). Stück reused the goddesses head, framed in an octagon, for many posters, as late as 1907, advertising Secession exhibitions. This poster, along with all his other Secession work, was printed by Wolf & Sohn, the main printer of the Secession, who, most likely, did the lay-out and typography on the gold background adding Von Stück's logo afterwards. Non-the-less, it is a classic Secession piece. Not in DFP, not in Wember.
