Anna Frank-Klein

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Anna Amalie Frank-Klein (born February 9, 1894 in Berlin ; died July 30, 1977 in Tel Aviv ) was a German visual artist.

Life

Anna Klein's parents were Siegismund Samuel and Antonie Klein. On her mother's side she was related to the painter Max Liebermann , she was his great niece.

Anna Klein completed an apprenticeship at the Akademie der Künste Berlin and with Kees van Dongen in Paris. From the early days of her artistic work, the covers of the foreign-language " Pandora series " of the island library that she designed have come down to us. Her interest in Africa and Asia was reflected in the “India Show” exhibition, which she showed in a bookshop on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in 1926.

In 1929 she married Rudolf Frank, her son Vincent Carl was born in 1930 and her son René Antonio in 1936.

Anna Frank-Klein created portrait drawings of the writers Lisa Tetzner (1933), Günther Weisenborn (1933) and Carl Zuckmayer (1931). After 1933 she portrayed members of the "Orchestra of the Jewish Cultural Association Berlin". Half a year before his death, she created a charcoal drawing by Max Liebermann.

After knowing that her sons were safe with her husband, who lived in Switzerland, in February 1939, she was given a ship passage in 1940 with the bogus emigration destination Brazil. Your attempt to emigrate to Palestine failed. Anna Frank-Klein was brought from Haifa to Mauritius with more than 1,500 other Jewish refugees in December 1940 . There she was interned as a British civil prisoner until the end of the Second World War. It was not until August 1945 that the internees were given permission to leave Mauritius and travel to Palestine.

After 1945 Anna Frank-Klein lived first in Cholon , a suburb of Tel Aviv, and since 1970 in Ramat Ef'al near Ramat Gan . She also continued her creative work in the newly formed state of Israel. Numerous colored pastels and watercolors show portraits, landscapes, everyday scenes. Her work has repeatedly been exhibited in galleries in Israel. Anna Frank-Klein died on July 30, 1977 in Tel Aviv.

literature

  • Since 2008 the book "The Mauritius Shekel" has been a reminder of the story of the Jewish prisoners on the island of Mauritius. The author Geneviève Pitot (1930–2002) received drawing lessons from Anna Frank-Klein in Mauritius.
  • Kristine von Soden : And outside a strange wind is blowing ... Across the seas into exile. 2016, pp. 181–187.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Afterword to Geneviève Pitot and "Mauritius-Shekel" website by Vincent C. Frank-Steiner, accessed on February 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Frank-Klein, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank-Klein, Anna Amalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1977
Place of death Tel Aviv