The historic rooms
Dark and gilded as the painter left them.
Franz von Stuck, a miller's son from Lower Bavaria, rose to become one of Munich's princes of painters at the end of the nineteenth century, a founder of the Munich Secession, and a professor at the academy whose students included Kandinsky, Klee and Albers. At the height of his success he built himself a house near the Isar between 1897 and 1898, and designed all of it himself: the architecture, the furniture, the lamps, the door handles, the mosaics. That is the key to the place. The villa is not a house containing art but a single integrated work of art. The historic rooms are dark and gilded, mixing antique classicism with Jugendstil in a way that is close to theatrical, and among the paintings hung in them is a version of The Sin, the picture that made his name. In 1913 he added a large studio wing, and since 1992 the house has been a museum belonging to the city of Munich. The villa was closed for years for a thorough restoration. The historic rooms reopened in October 2025, and the full reopening followed in May 2026 with restored facades, a step-free entrance from Ismaninger Strasse, a redesigned foyer, the artist's garden and a new canteen. The full ticket is nine euros, with a cheaper four-euro ticket for the historic rooms alone, and entry is free on the first Friday evening of each month.
Dark and gilded as the painter left them.
Added in 1913, now the temporary exhibition space.
Prinzregentenstrasse 60, 81675 Munich
He was Munich's most famous painter around 1900 and a leader of the Secession that broke the academy's monopoly. His dark mythological pictures, The Sin above all, caused real scandal in their day. But the house does not depend on your opinion of the paintings: it is one of the purest surviving examples in Europe of the total work of art, where everything from the wall to the door handle was designed by one hand.
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