Franz Friedrich Franck

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Franz Friedrich Franck (1627–1687)

Franz Friedrich Franck (* 1627 in Kaufbeuren , † 1687 in Augsburg ) was an Augsburg painter .

Live and act

Franck was the son of the painter Hans Ulrich Franck and was initially trained by him. He then traveled to Italy for further training there.

He created, among other things, depictions of saints for churches, portraits and still lifes with motifs of plants, fruits and animals. The orphanage in Augsburg owned the three pictures from 1674 “Job, giving gifts to poor orphans”, “Ester” and “David”. The Obermünster Abbey in Regensburg used to be in possession of the work “Sterbender Franz”, which is now in Regensburg Cathedral .

In the St. Anna Church in Augsburg was "Jacob's arrival with Joseph in Egypt". Franck also provided the designs for the Augsburg Peace Paintings from 1669 and 1675.

His pictures were engraved by well-known engravers such as Kilian , Wolfgang and Faber.

Franck died in 1687 and was buried in the Protestant St. Anne's cemetery in Augsburg.

He had at least two daughters: Jacobine Euphrosina (* 1676) and Anna Veronica (* 1679).

literature

  • Joseph Eduard Wessely:  Franck, Hans Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 211.
  • JG Deuringer, rational art painting catalog and description of the painting collection of JG Deuringer on the three Moors in Augsburg , consisting mostly of Dutch, also of several Italian, old German and modern cabinets , p. 44
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler , General Künstlerlexicon , S. 252 , S. 823
  • Philipp von Zabern, The Paintings of the 17th Century in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , 1995, p. 89

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Knauer, "Beenke das Ende": On the function of the death warning in graphic image sequences of the Thirty Years' War, p. 129, FN30
  2. ↑ Andreas Link, Augspurgisches Jerusalem, 2009, p.
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Franz Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH 1687
Place of death augsburg