Irmin Frank

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Irmin Frank , née Toth-Sonns (* 1939 in Vienna ; † December 24, 2010 ) was an Austrian textile artist .

Live and act

Frank grew up in Schärding and was supported there by Emmy Woitsch from Rieder . She studied painting with Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

With her husband, the sculptor and ceramist Ino Frank († 1992), she came to Burgenland in the 1960s , where she lived in Baumgarten for many years . She is the mother of Dorothee and Lukas and taught from 1971 to 1977 at the Bundesrealgymnasium Oberpullendorf .

In 1969, 1970, 1973 and 1974 she initiated international painting weeks in the orangery of Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt .

After 1974 she began to deal with the technique of batik , which she consistently developed into textile graphics. From 1985 she was a member of the Innviertel Artists Guild .

Works

  • Oli and Purzelbaum , written by Juttareiber and drawn by Irmin Frank, 176 pages, Baumgarten, 1981

exhibition

Irmin Frank took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, including a.

  • Textile Art, Batik, Austrian Cultural Institute Prague, 1997
  • Art.Contact.Textile, Oberpullendorf Cultural Association, 2012
  • Textile art, batik, Teplice Castle riding arena, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Textile artist Irmin Frank dies , in: ORF Burgenland website
  2. ↑ Irmin Frank - Textile Art and Batik , in: Web presence of the city of Ried im Innkreis
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Irmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2010