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Franz Stassen (12 February 1869, Hanau 18 April 1949, Berlin) was a German painter and illustrator.

Franz Stassen
Born(1869-02-12)12 February 1869
Hanau, Kingdom of Prussia
Died18 April 1949(1949-04-18) (aged 80)
Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany
Known forPainting, drawing, illustrating
MovementJugendstil, Art Nouveau

Life


Educated at the Berlin University of the Arts, Stassen worked within the German Jugendstil tradition, inspired by artist such as Max Klinger, Gustav Klimt and other symbolist painters.[1] He is best known for illustrating the works of Richard Wagner, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. Stassen was a friend of Wagner's son Siegfried and closely associated with the nationalistic Bayreuth Circle, centered around the Bayreuth Festival.

His Wagner illustrations were popular in Wilhelmine Germany and widely reproduced. They have been said to anticipate the heroic American Comic book style.[2] His elaborate incorporation of musical staves and leitmotifs into his illustrations have also been commented upon.[3]

Stassen joined the NSDAP in 1930. He created four tapestries for Hitler's Reich Chancellery, which depicted mythological motifs from the Icelandic Eddas. Important solo exhibitions took place in Bayreuth in 1937 and in Dresden in 1940. In 1939 Hitler awarded him the title of professor. In 1944, towards the end of World War II, he was placed on the Gottbegnadeten list by Joseph Goebbels, a list of artists considered crucial to Nazi culture.[4] Stassen died in Berlin in 1949.


Works


In addition to his Wagnerian works, Stassen created illustrations for The Brothers Grimm's Fairytales, Goethe's Faust and Hans von Wolzogen's Die Edda, Germanische Götter- und Heldensagen among other literary subjects.




Literature



References


  1. Huckvale, David (1993) "Wagnerian Visual Imagery from France and Germany (1860-1940)." RIdIM/RCMI Newsletter 18, no. 1 (1993): 17-25. Accessed April 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41604974.
  2. Ross, Alex (2020) Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p.203.
  3. Meyer, Stephen (2009) "Illustrating Transcendence: "Parsifal", Franz Stassen, and the Leitmotif." The Musical Quarterly 92, no. 1/2 (2009): 9-32. Accessed April 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27751852.
  4. Klee, Ernst (2007) Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 585.



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[de] Franz Stassen

Franz Stassen (* 12. Februar 1869 in Hanau; † 18. April 1949 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Maler, Zeichner und Illustrator.
- [en] Franz Stassen



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