Friedrich Frank (painter)
Friedrich Frank (born August 23, 1871 in Frankenmarkt , † June 29, 1945 in Werfenweng ) was an Austrian watercolorist and vedute painter .
Frank studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . After graduating, he founded a theater painting studio in Vienna with Hermann Burghart .
From 1914 to 1918 he was employed as a war painter on the Italian front. In the period 1930/1931 he went on study trips to Egypt and Palestine .
In 1935 he was commissioned to furnish the Romanian pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 .
During the Second World War he worked in his studio in Freilassing near Salzburg . A bomb hit destroyed many of his works there.
Friedrich Frank mainly dealt with vedute painting, also created landscapes. On his study trips he also visited Italy .
literature
- Busses 1977
- Witt Checklist 1978, p. 103
- Saur 1999-2000, Vol. 3, p. 777
- Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Supplement 1, Vienna 1978
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frank, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian vedute painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenmarkt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1945 |
| Place of death | Werfenweng |