Robert Jakob Bock (1896 Pirmasens - 1943)

Portrait of Franz von Stuck

etching on chine colle

29,3 x 22,2 cm

inscribed in pencil lower left "XI/XXV  v. d. unverstahlten Plate" (No. 11 of 25 impressions)

dedicated in plate "Meinem hochvererhten Lehrer Franz von Stuck" ["My esteemed teacher, Franz von Stuck"]

signed in pencil lower right Rob. Jak. Bock 

The Daulton Collection

This is a portrait of Franz von Stuck "by his former student Robert Jakob Bock, who incidentally sojourned at the Künstler-Erholungsheim (Artists' Residence) Schloss Neuburg co-founded by Stuck and other Munich artists at the beginning of the 20th century."  Julie Kennedy, art historian and curator, e-mail communication with Jack Daulton, December 6, 2012.