![]() In 1897 Stuck married an American widow, Mary Lindpainter, and began work designing his own residence and studio, the Villa Stuck. In 1895, he began teaching painting at the Munich Academy. Also during 1893, Stuck was awarded a gold medal for painting at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and was appointed to a royal professorship. The next year he won further acclaim with the critical and public success of what is now his best known work, the painting The Sin. In 1892 Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession, and also executed his first sculpture, Athlete. In 1889 he exhibited his first paintings at the Munich Glass Palace, winning a gold medal for The Guardian of Paradise. ![]() He first became well known by cartoons for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration. From 1881 to 1885 Stuck attended the Munich Academy. To begin his artistic education he relocated in 1878 to Munich, where he would settle for life. In 1906, Stuck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Franz Ritter von Stuck.īorn at Tettenweis near Passau, Stuck displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature from an early age. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient egyptian mythology receiving substantial critical acclaim with The Sin in 1892. Durieux unsuccessfully tried to obtain visa for the United States in 1941 Ludwig Katzenellenbogen was arrested by Gestapo agents in Thessaloniki and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was killed in 1944.ĭurieux returned to West Germany in 1952, appearing on stages in Berlin, Hamburg and Münster.Franz von Stuck was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. In 1937 she moved to Zagreb, Croatia (then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) where she became a member of the International Red Aid. She continued to perform at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt and in Prague. In 1933, Durieux and her husband left Germany for Switzerland to escape Nazi rule. ![]() Durieux was a public character of 1920s Berlin and associated with numerous celebrities like the famous photographer Frieda Riess. In 1927 they were the main financiers of Erwin Piscator’s Neues Schauspielhaus project. Soon after, Durieux married general director Ludwig Katzenellenbogen. [ In 1904, Durieux married the Berlin Secession painter Eugen Spiro, and after their divorce, she remarried in 1910 the successful art dealer and editor Paul Cassirer, who committed suicide in a room next to the court room that pronounced their divorce. From 1915 she performed at the Royal Schauspielhaus Berlin. In 1911 Durieux entered the stage of the Lessing Theater where, on November 1, 1913, she became the second actress to perform the role Eliza Doolittle in a German language production of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, half a year before its English premiere on April 11, 1914. ![]() From 1903 she worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and with a group of expressionist artists around Kurt Hiller and Jakob van Hoddis. The next season she got an engagement in Breslau (Wrocław). Born Ottilie Godeffroy, the daughter of the Austrian chemist Richard Godeffroy (1847–1895), she trained as an actress in Vienna, her native town, and gave her debut at the Moravian Theatre in Olmütz (Olomouc) in 1901/02. ![]()
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