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Description
‘Adam und Eva (‘Adam and Eve’)
Biography: Franz von Stuck
‘The Woman as the ultimate corruptor, the seductress of man’.
Other than in biblical history, Von Stuck has depicted the Woman not as instrument of the Devil, but the Devel (the snake) is functioning here as instrument of the Woman.
Relief in bronze.
Size 73 x 69 x 3,5 cm.
Created 1892-1910.
The relief adorned the garden facade of the ‘Villa Keller’ in the district Bogenhausen of Munich. Villa Keller was built in 1910; below a photo of the relief at the façade around 1950.
No other casts in bronze are known to exist.
The bronze relief is published in ‘Die Kraft des Mannes und die weiche Schmiegsamkeit des Weibes, -Franz von Stuck’ by Thomas Raff, 2013.
Offered by Christie’s in May 2013.
Two related plaster casts, around 1892, showed up at auctions in the last three decades.
Left: the bronze relief by Von Stuck, published in ‘Die Kraft des Mannes und die weiche Schmiegsamkeit des Weibes, -Franz von Stuck’ by Thomas Raff, 2013, page 37.
Right: the bronze relief depicted and described in the cataloge of the auction ’19th Century European Art’ , 22 May 2013, by Christie’s.
‘Villa Keller’, around 1950. At the left the relief on the facade.
Left: Franz von Stuck, ‘Adam and Eve’, plastercast, 1892. Size 74 x 70 cm. Sold by Sotheby’s in 2005.
Right: Franz von Stuck, ‘Versuchung’ (‘Seduction’), plastercast. Size 74 x 70 cm. Sold by auction house Van Ham in November 2002. 
Left: plaster relief ‘Adam und Eva’, depicted in ‘Fanz Stuck’ by Otto Julius Bierbaum, München, 1893. The photo is based on another photo produced by ‘Münchener Kunst – und Verlag-Anstalt Dr. E. Albrecht & Co and signed ‘1892’ (Stuck-Nachlass).
Right: plaster cast, before 1893, in the atelier of Franz Stuck, depicted in ‘Fanz Stuck’ by Otto Julius Bierbaum, München, 1893. 
| – condition | : II |
| – size | :73 x 69 x 3,5 cm |
| – signed | : right, below |
| – type | : bronze |
| – weight | : |
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