Friedrich Stahl was a painter and illustrator born in Munich in Germany, where he studied at the Munch Academy of Art, going on to be a founding member of the Group of Eleven.
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Although Stahl loved the culture and life in Munich, in 1898 he moved to England and worked with the Pre-Raphaelites. IInfluenced by the groups love of Italian art, he moved to Florence six years later, in 1904. He lived in Italy for nine years, and his style changed to one depicting literary, religious, and mythological themes with an atmosphere of nostalgia, remeniscent of the Old Masters.
He moved back to Munich in 1913, but presumably couldn’t stand it, returning to Italy and living inRome for the last twenty years of his life.
