[1] Born at Tettenweis near Passau,[2] Stuck displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature from an early age.

Also during 1893, Stuck was awarded a gold medal for painting at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and was appointed to a royal professorship.

His designs for the villa included everything from layout to interior decorations; for his furniture Stuck received another gold medal at the 1900 Paris World Exposition.

His students over the years included Paul Klee, Hans Purrmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Alf Bayrle and Josef Albers.

[2]: 87f By the time of his death, Stuck's importance as an artist in his own right had almost been forgotten: his art seemed old-fashioned and irrelevant to a generation that had endured World War I.

Stuck's reputation languished until the late 1960s when a renewed interest in Art Nouveau brought him to attention once more.