Hans Ulrich Franck
Hans Ulrich Franck (* 1590/95 in Kaufbeuren ; † autumn 1675 in Augsburg ) was a German painter, draftsman and etcher.
Life
Franck was probably born between 1590 and 1595. The year of birth 1603 given on the portrait engraving by G. Chr. Kilian can hardly be correct, since Franck married in 1615 according to a Kaufbeuren council protocol book (Kaufbeuren, Stadtarchiv, B 4). In 1630 Franck signed an altarpiece in Kaufbeuren / Oberbeuren as “Mahler and organist in Kaufbeuren”. As a widower with seven children, Franck moved to Augsburg in 1637, where on October 30, 1638, despite repeated protests from the painters' guild, he acquired citizenship as a “good Catholic master” and lived there until his death in 1675.
His father was the Kaufbeur painter, church caretaker and city architect Daniel Erbe, known as Franck, born in 1573, active in 1603; his mother was Barbara Dieffstötterin, widowed Rembold.
His son Franz Friedrich Franck (1627–1687) was also a painter.
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In addition to lesser-known drawings and paintings, Franck created the series of 25 etchings, Horrors of the Thirty Years' War , in 1643 and 1655 to 1656 , which earned him the reputation of a “ Grimmelshausen of fine arts”. Nothing is known about his artistic origin. Stylistically he is close to Johann Heinrich Schönfeld , to whom he apparently had a personal relationship, as he signed the wedding office protocol on April 29, 1655 as guarantor of Schönfeld's wedding. Even before Schönfeld's office, which was occupied in 1643, there are reflections of his work at Franck. There is no evidence of an apprenticeship in Holland, but a looting scene with a monogram and dated 1647 (from the A. Schwarz collection, Stuttgart, auctioned in 1931 in auction 321 as No. 138 at M. Lempertz, Cologne) demonstrates knowledge of Dutch painting in the style by Jacob Duck or Maerten Stoop close.
literature
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Franck, Hans Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 211.
- Exhibition cat. Augsburg, 1968: Augsburger Barock , Augsburg 1968; P. 105 (biography).
- Exhibition cat. Berlin, 1966: German painters and draftsmen of the 17th century , Berlin 1966, pp. 115–116 (Hans Möhle).
- Tilman Falk: A group of drawings by Hanns Ulrich Franck . In: Bärbel Hamacher, Christl Karnahm (eds.): Pinxit, sculpsit, fecit. Art history studies . Munich 1994, pp. 111-121.
- Albert Haemmerle: The etchings of Hanns Ulrich Franckh, painter from Kaufbeuren 1603/1675 . Augsburg 1923.
- Martin Knauer: “Think about the end”. On the function of the death admonition in series of prints from the Thirty Years' War . Tübingen 1997; therein pp. 28–38: The war series by Hans Ulrich Franck and the monogrammist CR .
- Josef C. Mancal: Hans Ulrich Franck , in: The Dictionary of Art , ed. v. Jane Turner, Vol. 11, London, 1996, pp. 713-714.
- Götz J. Pfeiffer: Bild-Zeitung and Moral-Büchlein - the Thirty Years War in prints by Matthäus Merian and Abraham Hogenberg, Jacques Callot and Hans Ulrich Franck , in: The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 , Hanau, 2011, pp. 255–275.
Web links
- Hans Ulrich Franck on the website of the State Gallery Stuttgart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franck, Hans Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1595 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaufbeuren |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1675 |
| Place of death | augsburg |