Julius Frank (painter)

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Julius Frank (born April 11, 1826 in Munich ; † April 30, 1908 there ) was a German history painter and stone draftsman.

Life

Frank was a son and student of the porcelain and glass painter Michael Sigismund Frank (June 1, 1770 to January 16, 1847). He enrolled on November 5, 1842 to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Here, under Claudius Schraudolph d. Ä. religious painting and created altarpieces in its strict style for smaller Bavarian churches , but these were little known in other art circles; He also created a series of wall paintings for the Bavarian National Museum from ecclesiastical and profane history, a cycle of representations from the New Testament for a church in the Posen administrative region and the cardboard for a wall painting in the Mariahilfkapelle on Gasteig in Munich. In a competition for a high altar painting for St. George's Church in Dinkelsbühl in Middle Franconia, he received first prize and a travel grant that took him to Italy. He was also commissioned to do a fresco painting for the sick Josef Anton Fischer together with Franz Wurm in Stonyhurst, England.

The battle on the Lechfeld on August 10, 955

Works (selection)

  • St. Severin preached Christianity in Bavaria around the middle of the fifth century
  • Duke Thassilo II. Founds Herren-Chiemsee as a learned school in 782
  • St. Afra is martyred
  • Tiberius and Drusus, the Emperor Augostus' step-sons, as founders of Augsburg
  • St. Ulrich fights at the head of the citizens of Augsburg on August 10, 955 in the battle of the Lechfelde under Otto I the Great
  • Sanct Magnoald donates the Abbey of Sct. Mang and opens the ironworks on the Säuling at the beginning of the 7th century

literature

Web links

Commons : Julius Frank  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00073 Julius Frank . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841-1884 . Munich 1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  2. ^ Hyacinth Holland: Frank, Julius . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 352–353 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Hyacinth Holland : In memory of the history painter Julius Frank . In: The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1904, p. 239 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f The Bavarian National Museum With illustrations and plans. Wolf & Son, 1868, p. 327, 367-368 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1908
Place of death Munich