"In the decades before the First World War, Munich was celebrated for its so-called "painter princes"-a tiny group of top-tier artists who set themselves up in grand mansions, turning out wildly popular salon paintings, mythological scenes and portraits of other A-listers. The last of these great artist-aristocrats was Franz von Stuck, one of Europe's most important Symbolist painters, who was also a sculptor, an architect and a designer."
"Damaged in the Second World War, then donated to the city of Munich, before being turned into a museum in the early 1990s, the Museum Villa Stuck has a dual purpose: to present Stuck's manifold talents and to mount special exhibitions, including work by cutting-edge contemporary artists. Both aspects of the remit have been rethought as part of the year-and-a-half-long redevelopment."
"including its security system, and this has coincided with the restoration of the facade and a renewal of the museum's historical rooms. The adjoining music and reception salons boast, as they did before, sumptuous decorative features, including elaborate flooring and Pompeii-inspired wall paintings by Stuck. But thanks to the conservation of art and objects, and the dramatic inclusion of new silk curtains that serve as a room divider, the overall effect is much brighter and more dramatic."
Villa Stuck reopened after a €13.5m renovation that updated infrastructure, security and restored the facade and historic interiors. The villa, built between 1897 and 1915, was Franz von Stuck's Gesamtkunstwerk and displays his paintings, sculptures and decorative designs. The museum serves a dual purpose: to present Stuck's manifold talents and to host special exhibitions of contemporary artists. Renovation work conserved artworks and objects and renewed the music and reception salons, preserving Pompeii-inspired wall paintings and elaborate flooring. New vermillion-red silk curtains now divide rooms, brightening and dramatizing the historical spaces and display arrangements.
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