The object of desire was the white flesh of the woman. Jugendstil, also called ‘Art Nouveau’ in other countries of Europe, was fascinated by the attraction of and for women. For ‘Art Nouveau’ artists, women - and more often than not – the alluring, nude, attractive, dangerous, light and accessible women, the women of theatres and cabarets, became one of the main themes of the representation of that art. Mostly however, the subject was taken up with respect and pure admiration and without thoughts or references to moral evil. Von Stuck’s ‘Sin’ was a picture of that Jugendstil art at the extreme. It showed the dangers of such art. Many other artists represented the attraction and temptation of the dangers. With von Stuck’s pictures like ‘Sin’, Jugendstil and ‘Art Nouveau’ were called decadent art. The style of Jugendstil is still much considered such today. It was the art style that marked a society of Europe that led the continent straight into the horrors of World War I, with the punishment after sin terrible in death and destruction. It will always be a controversy whether artists like von Stuck created that society or were merely the expressions of it.