Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of Cartes et Vignettes, originally published by Gerlach and Schenk, Vienna, in 1890. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Stuck, Franz von, 1863–1928, artist. Title: Of menus and mythology : late nineteenth-century print graphics / Franz von Stuck. Other titles: Karten und Vignetten Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc. 2017. | “This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Gerlach and Schenk, Vienna, in 1890.” Identifiers: LCCN 2017003973 | ISBN 9780486815909 (paperback) | ISBN 0486815900 Subjects: LCSH: Stuck, Franz von, 1863–1928—Themes, motives. | BISAC: ART /European. Classification: LCC NC999.6.G3 S78 2017 | DDC 741.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003973 Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications 81590001 2017 www.doverpublications.com Publisher’s Note FRANZ VON STUCK (1863–1928) was an important figure in the late-nineteenth- century Symbolist movement, a gathering of literary and artistic ideas and works that originated with French poets such as Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Verlaine. The use of symbolism—identified with themes and motifs of fantasy and dreams, sensuality and eroticism, and, especially, myth and legend—in the arts was a reaction against the rigid formalism prevalent at the time. Von Stuck, a skilled engraver, painter, sculptor, architect, and caricaturist, was prodigious and highly accomplished: he produced the graphics included in this collection at the age of twenty-seven and became a professor at the Munich Academy of the Arts when in his early thirties (Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were two of his notable students). Of Menus and Mythology consists of rare graphic works that Von Stuck produced as “stock art” for diverse uses—menus, wine lists, and performance sheets. The striking imagery includes depictions of Dionysus and Bacchus, the Greek and Roman gods of wine; musical instruments; a cornucopia; cupids and cherubs; and scenes of rampant merriment and pleasure.