01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #89

Stanislaw Stückgold (1868 - 1933)

Portrait of Artist's daughter Felicitas, c. 1910

Oil on canvas on cardboard

41 x 33 cm

Private collection

Stanislaw Stückgold (born May 18, 1868 in Warsaw , Russian Empire , died January 9, 1933 in Paris) was a Polish-German-French painter.

Stückgold studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic and subsequently chemistry and philosophy in Zurich and the Sorbonne in Paris. After his military service in the Russian army, he worked as an assistant at a state-owned chemical laboratory in Berlin and in Dusseldorf. In Warsaw he became manager of a chemical plant. He set up a free technical office and registered patents in the textile industry and boiler firing. He worked in London for railway and steamship companies and in Poland for coal mining.

In 1905/06 Stückgold supported a socialist party in Poland. He was arrested several times and imprisoned in Moscow and Petersburg.  After suppression of the revolution, he gave up his work as an engineer and began studying art in Warsaw. In 1907 he fled from Poland to Munich. 

In October 1908, Stückgold moved to Paris and became a pupil of Henri Matisse. During this time he met Henri Rousseau. In March 1909, Stückgold exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants .

In 1913, Stückgold he moved to Munich where he joined the Anthroposophical Society . He opened a painting school in Munich, which he ran until 1921. He was back in Paris from 1923, where he again led a painting school until 1926. More on Stanislaw Stückgold

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