Franz von Stuck - Springtime of love

Title: Springtime of love
Artist: Franz von Stuck (1863-1928)
Date: 1917
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 106 x 116 cm

Von Stuck frequently depicted a mythological world populated with nymphs and centaurs, baccantes and fauns. It was a playful world with distinctly comic and erotic undertones. The present work depicts a beautiful nymph, reclining naked in a verdant landscape, listening to a garlanded youth playing a pipe. They are at once at ease with each other and with the countryside around them. It is a scene of harmony and sensual abandonment.