Harry Frankel
Harry Fränkel (born November 15, 1911 in Dortmund , † April 28, 1970 in Bochum ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Harry Fränkel was born on November 15, 1911 in Dortmund as the son of a Jewish businessman. From 1928 to 1931 he attended the Dortmund School of Applied Arts under Professors Walter Herricht and Max Guggenberger. After the so-called "takeover of power" by the National Socialists , a moment with serious consequences began for Fränkel. Since his father was Jewish, he was not only denied a planned course of study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he also hardly got any work. He made his way, he later recalled, "from attic to attic". In 1938 he retrained as a technical draftsman in order to continue to exist. His father was murdered by the National Socialists in Auschwitz . In October 1944, Fränkel was sent to a labor camp near Kassel, which was liberated by the American Army in May 1945. Harry Fränkel returned to Dortmund, gave up his civil profession as a technical draftsman and from then on worked as a press draftsman. Above all, however, he began to work artistically again. In 1953 he was there when the «Niederrhein 53 Artists Group » was founded (later Group 53 ), which initially saw abstract and non-objective image and form design as the aim of its work. In 1956 he was one of the founding members of the Dortmund group , of which he became second chairman. Harry Fränkel died on April 28, 1970 of complications from cancer.
Exhibitions
- 1952 Recklinghausen Municipal Art Gallery (B)
- 1953 Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund, (with Hermann Breucker )
- 1953 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , (B) Exhibition with the Niederrhein artist group in 1953
- 1954 State Museum Münster (B)
- 1955 Lukas-Kunststuben Bernd Clasing, Münster (with Eva Niestrath – Berger)
- 1956 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, (B) exhibition with Gruppe 53
- 1958 Villigst house , Schwerte
- 1958 Osthaus Museum , Hagen, (B) Exhibition with the West German Artists Association , Hagen
- 1959 Märkisches Museum , Witten (with Karl Fritz Friedrich )
- 1960 Osthaus Museum, Hagen, (B) Exhibition with the West German Artists Association, Hagen
- 1961 2nd International Triennial for Colored Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland (B)
- 1962 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- 1962 Gallery Point Cardinal, Paris, France
- 1962 Gustav Lübcke Museum , Hamm (B)
- 1963 Gallery Blome, Wanne-Eickel (B)
- 1963 Wilhelm Morgner House , Soest (B)
- 1964 evening gallery Gerhardt, Hagen
- 1967 Municipal Gallery in Lenbachhaus , Munich (B)
- 1970 Museum of Municipal Art Collections, Bonn
- 1970 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- 1970 Overbeck Society Lübeck (B)
- 1971 KeO Gallery, Hagen
- 1985 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- 1991 Loehr Gallery, Frankfurt
- 2012 Dieter Fischer Gallery, Dortmund
(B) = participation in exhibitions
plant
Harry Fränkel began his artistic work in late Expressionism. He drew, cut socially and humanly committed pictures, they contain accusation and incantation; the intellectual and formal influence of Frans Masereel is clear. With the four-part work, “The Seasons”, consisting of four medium-sized woodcuts, Fränkel overcame the expressive pathos and found his own mark. It was from here that Fränkel built up his “Glasperlenspiel”, which culminated in his wall decorations in his colored prints and later also in his tapestry designs for Dortmund's new opera house. Mathematical, lyrical and musical elements combined to form a high overall formula. Fränkel himself expressed this formula as follows: “(...) The core of my work is to find a new hold for the artistic means, color and form that have become free. They have an order that is based on human perception: to create this order anew in every image is my adventure. ”Fränkel believed that order is based on people; he believed in it no matter how much the disorder of man himself had struck him. His last major works were screen prints with serial transformations of the circle and the square. The spiritual kinship, not the dependency, to Josef Albers [sic] becomes clear here. The color works, set against each other with unheard-of certainty, the certainty of a life, seem to be free of any material weight.
Works in public space
- Wall design for the entrance hall of the municipal hospitals, Dortmund
- Wall design for the Südbad in Dortmund
- Gobelins for the Dortmund City Theater (now in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund.)
Works in public collections
- Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- Archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg
- Art Museum Bonn
- Städelmuseum, Frankfurt
- Constructive house, Zurich
literature
- Renate Thiemann-Gerold: Harry Fränkel, catalog raisonné of cuts and screen prints , publisher Galerie Löhr, Frankfurt, total production PR Wilk, Friedrichsdorf 1991
- Dortmunder Gruppe and Dortmunder Künstlerbund (Hrsg.): 25 years of the Dortmunder Gruppe Dortmunder Künstlerbund . Kettler Verlag, Bönen 1980, documentation with contributions by Heinrich Sondermann, Otto Königsberger, Heinz-Georg Podehl. Otto Bahrenburg and Rudolf Wiemer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Fränkel: Exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, Visionary Collection Vol. 17 Accessed on April 29, 2016
- ↑ Otto Königsberger: On the death of Harry Fränkel , in: here , Dortmunder Kulturarbeit 20/70, October 1970, p. 17
- ↑ Südbad of the city of Dortmund
- ^ Tapestries 1963–1965, website of the Museum of Art and Cultural History . Retrieved April 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frankel, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1970 |
| Place of death | Bochum |