Villa Stuck, Art museum and architectural heritage monument in Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany.
Villa Stuck is a neoclassical villa on Prinzregentenstraße, built in 1897/98 as Franz von Stuck's home and studio, with a studio building added in 1914/15. Its pale grey facade has a recessed central entrance behind a dark metal gate, a relief panel and two statues on the right wing, and signs reading "SHOP", "CAFE" and "EINTRITT". Inside, the rooms contrast with Art Nouveau decoration.
Franz von Stuck designed and built the neoclassical villa on Prinzregentenstraße in 1897/98 as his home and studio, with Art Nouveau interiors contrasting the facade. In 1914/15 he added a separate studio building to his own plans, creating an ensemble of villa, New Studio and artists' garden. His daughter Mary Heilmann died in 1961; in January 1965 Hans Joachim and Amélie Ziersch bought the house and furnishings for 1.1 million marks and had it converted into a museum, opened on 9 March 1968. In 1991 the Zierschs gave the villa to the city of Munich, which made it a municipal museum in 1992.
The residence displays Franz von Stuck's original artworks alongside rotating exhibitions of modern art, bridging historical and contemporary creative expressions. The spaces themselves function as artistic works, with every detail reflecting the artist's vision.
The museum reopened in October 2025 after a renovation costing €13.5 million. The entrance now sits between the villa and the Neues Atelier, reached through a glazed hall with a cafeteria that opens onto the garden. A new main staircase in the villa's corner quadrant links all levels of both buildings.
The bronze Amazons in front of the entrance were cast in 1935 by the Munich firm Prießmann, Bauer & Co. after Stuck's 1913 plaster model; Stuck's son-in-law Albert Heilmann, then living in the villa, had the group erected at the portal in 1936. In the garden, the front section was restored in 2018 with solitary trees on the north facade and a reconstruction of an ancient deer from Herculaneum.
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