Franz von stuck museum10/5/2023 ![]() The Stuck painting was found together with a large British equestrian artwork which had documentation showing the Slaughters had purchased it in St Louis in 1964. No one knew where the painting was located or who owned it until 2021, when it was rediscovered in the Kansas City mansion of the late Colonel and Mrs S D Slaughter.” “For the next one hundred years, the painting was neither exhibited nor published. “And that is where the trail ran cold,” said Soulis. The next change in ownership was noted in the catalog for the aforementioned 1919 museum exhibition in Dallas, where the owner was shown as Edward A Faust, a prominent St Louis restauranteur who was connected to Adolphus Busch by marriage. The gallery sold the painting five days later to Hugo Reisinger, who is known to have been its owner until at least 1908. The Art Loss Registry has been instrumental in tracing the early years of Lauschende Faune’s ownership, starting with Galerie Heinemann, Stuck’s primary representative, which received it on August 9, 1899. But even years after the First World War ended, German art remained unfashionable and never had time to recover because of Germany’s aggressive role in World War Two.” ![]() He was also in demand as a teacher, with students like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. He was famous as the cofounder of the Munich Secession, had won a Gold Medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and had even been awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1906. “There can be no other explanation, because in 1909, Stuck was at the pinnacle of his career. “The ten-year hiatus was almost certainly attributable to the unfortunate effect World War One had on German art in general,” said Dirk Soulis, owner of Soulis Auctions. Later that year, Lauschende Faune was exhibited at both the Chicago Institute of Art and the Copley Society in Boston but after that its next known museum appearance was not until 1919, when it was displayed at the Dallas Art Association’s First Annual Exhibition: Contemporary International Art. ![]() Reisinger was also a member of The Met’s board of directors at the time. ![]() The exhibition’s catalog identified it as being the property of Hugo Reisinger, a banker, businessman and prominent art collector who was married to the daughter of St Louis, Missouri, brewery baron Adolphus Busch. Remains of the label from that exhibition remain on verso. In 1909 it was depicted in The International Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art as part of a nine-page article by Christian Briton titled “The Collection of Hugo Reisinger: German and American Pictures.”Īlso in 1909, the painting was exhibited for seven weeks at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until now, Lauschende Faune, whose alternative title is Belauscht (translation: “overheard” or “eavesdropped on”), had been documented in black and white only, first appearing in the German art journal Die Kunst in 1904. It will be offered in a September 23 gallery auction, with all forms of remote bidding available. Soulis Auctions has been selected to sell the painting, without reserve, on the family’s behalf. There, it was displayed by two consecutive generations of the same family, who were unaware of its background or true value. Titled Lauschende Faune (Listening Fauns), the circa-1899 oil-on-panel with a distinguished history of museum exhibition is now known to have spent the last 60 years in a Kansas City residence. – A Met-exhibited artwork by the influential German Secessionist painter Franz von Stuck (né Franz Stuck, 1863-1928) has been rediscovered after being out of public sight for more than a century.
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