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2 months agoExtravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after 13.5m renovation
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.