site.btaCabinet Secures State Guarantee for Temporary Exhibition "Franz von Stuck" in Kvadrat 500 Gallery

The Council of Ministers has adopted a decision to provide a state guarantee for a temporary exhibition of works by Franz von Stuck in the Kvadrat 500 National Gallery, presenting movable cultural property owned by the Museum "Villa Stuck" in Munich, Germany.

The exhibition will be on display in the Kvadrat 500 gallery from April 15 to October 13. Franz von Stuck was a world-famous German Symbolist painter, a proponent of the Symbolist and Expressionist aesthetics, one of the leading artists of the Secession in Munich and a professor at the Academy there. The exhibition will feature 12 pieces of movable cultural property, including the artist's most famous works, such as The Guardian of Paradise and The Sin. The paintings were created between the late 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century. They are part of the German cultural heritage and are state property, owned by the Villa Stuck Museum. They are of high artistic value and their insurance valuation is EUR 7,537,000.

The National Gallery owns the painting Lucifer (1980), which is one of the most significant works by von Stuck. It has been included in numerous international exhibitions since 1972. The Franz von Stuck exhibition is part of the National Gallery's active efforts to develop cooperation and significantly increase exchanges in the visual arts. The Gallery searches for, collects, documents, preserves, studies, and promotes cultural values in the field of Bulgarian and foreign visual art for cognitive, educational, scientific, and aesthetic purposes in Bulgaria.

The provision of a state guarantee of exhibits is a generally accepted European practice, which allows to reduce the costs of organizing exhibitions, stimulates bilateral cooperation between museums and the mobility of collections.