Franz Stassen (12 February 1869, Hanau – 18 April 1949, Berlin) was a German painter and illustrator.
Educated at the Berlin University of the Arts, Stassen worked within the German Jugendstil tradition, inspired by artist such as Max Klinger, Gustav Klimt and other symbolist painters.
[1] He is best known for illustrating the works of Richard Wagner, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.
He created four tapestries for Hitler's Reich Chancellery, which depicted mythological motifs from the Icelandic Eddas.
In addition to his Wagnerian works, Stassen created illustrations for The Brothers Grimm's Fairytales, Goethe's Faust and Hans von Wolzogen's Die Edda, Germanische Götter- und Heldensagen among other literary subjects.