Alfred Frank

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Plaque from the GDR era in memory of Alfred Frank in the local recreation area Lübschützer Teiche, Machern near Leipzig

Alfred Frank (born May 28, 1884 in Lahr in Baden, † January 12, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German painter , graphic artist and communist .

Life

Alfred Frank was the son of the gardener Max Alfred Frank. He first completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer and joined the SPD in Leipzig in 1906 . From 1906 to 1908 and from 1910 to 1912 he attended the evening school of the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade and became a portrait and landscape painter , but also dealt with printmaking .

After returning from the First World War , he joined the KPD in 1919 , designed posters and banners for the party from 1923 and worked as a press illustrator for the communist Sächsische Arbeiter-Zeitung . From 1925 he taught at the adult education center in Leipzig. In 1928 Frank joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO), of which he became representative in Leipzig. When the National Socialists took power in 1933 and introduced their system of arbitrariness, Frank was dismissed from the adult education center and taken into protective custody until autumn , then sentenced to one year in prison in 1934. In 1935/36, together with other intellectuals such as Margarete Blank , Wolfgang Heinze and Georg Sacke, he founded a resistance group that joined the Schumann-Engert-Kresse group around Georg Schumann , Otto Engert and Kurt Kresse at the beginning of the Second World War .

Alfred Frank was arrested again on July 19, 1944, sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 23 and executed on January 12, 1945 in the courtyard of the Dresden Regional Court .

Honors

Alfred Frank lived at Schleußiger Quandtstrasse 11 from 1914 until his arrest (since 1946 Alfred-Frank-Strasse). A memorial plaque at the illegal meeting point at the Lübschützer ponds reminds of Frank, as does a memorial plaque on the residential building in Leipzig. A square in the Reudnitz district of Leipzig is named after Alfred Frank . In GDR times, the following were also named after the anti-fascist:

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, Volume 1, pp. 270-272
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Leipzig: Pro Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8
  • Ursula Tschesno-Hell, Michael Tschesno-Hell: Alfred Frank. The painter with the star. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b leipzig-lexikon.de
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1945
Place of death Dresden