Background
The son of Gisbert Fluggen from Munich, Josef first studied under his father and then studied his craft at the Munich Academy.
The son of Gisbert Fluggen from Munich, Josef first studied under his father and then studied his craft at the Munich Academy.
Fluggen enrolled at the Munich Academy in 1856. By 1859 he became a student of Karl Theodor von Piloty, under whose influence he began to paint historical paintings. In 1866 Fluggen brought his studies to an end and traveled to Paris, London, Brussels and Antwerp.
lieutenant was in Antwerp that he painted under the direction of Hendrik Leys.
At the end of the 1870s there emerged a series of works on the subject of Wagnerian opera, which brought him to the attention of Ludwig II of Bavaria, who appointed him court theater painter. Fluggen died in 1906.
Auction houses that have featured his work include: Bonhams, Dorotheum, and Neumeister among others