Franke-Schenk Art Salon

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The Franke-Schenk Art Salon is an art dealership and gallery that presents works of art from the 16th to the 20th century. The art salon emerged in 2009 from the merger of two companies.

View of the gallery in Residenzstrasse in Munich

history

Franke Art Salon

The Franke-Schenk Art Salon was founded in 1913 as the Franke Art Salon by the metal goods manufacturer Willy Franke (1875 Altenburg - 1957 Leipzig). The art and antiques dealer Kunstsalon Franke was located in Leipzig until 1961 . The family business was primarily specialized in the painting trade with old masters. From 1927 son Walter Franke (1901 Dresden - 1968 Baden-Baden), an art historian, joined the management. Forced to flee by the repression of the GDR and the expropriation of the art dealers in 1961, the Franke art salon settled in Baden-Baden .

From 1967, Michael Franke (1939 Leipzig - 1985 Baden-Baden) took over the management of the Franke Art Salon in the third generation . Michael Franke continued to expand the business in the 1970s and, together with his wife Catherine Franke, intensified the antique trade with silver and furniture in other branches. In 1971 Michael Franke took over the chairmanship of the Association of Art Dealers in Baden-Württemberg.

Gallery in the Royal Palace in Leipzig around 1935

After his early death in 1985, Catherine Franke concentrated the art trade on painting of classical modernism. The gallery's artists included, in addition to Marc Chagall , Karl Hofer , Max Pechstein , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Alexej von Jawlensky, above all Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann . In 1992 Catherine Franke organized a Max Liebermann exhibition, which she presented in Cologne, Zurich and in Berlin, in Liebermann's Wannsee villa. At their instigation, the villa was placed under monument protection and the Liebermann Society of the Liebermann Villa was founded. From this year the Zurich gallery Dr. Schenk and the Münchner Kunstsalon Franke together in joint ventures.

Gallery Dr. Gift

The Dr. Schenk was founded in 1984 in Zurich . The art historian Rolf Schenk began his art dealer activity in 1979 in the Carroll Gallery in Munich. After receiving his doctorate in art history in 1981, he relocated to Zurich, where he worked for the Koller auction house and the Jörg Stuker gallery in Bern . From 1984 to 1993 the Dr. Schenk mainly focused on painting from the 18th to 20th centuries and led Swiss artists of international standing, such as Cuno Amiet , Albert Anker , François Diday , Giovanni Giacometti and Augusto Giacometti , Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini as well as Gottardo Segantini .

Insight into the gallery space

Franke-Schenk Art Salon

After a joint art fair and exhibition, the two art dealers in Munich merged to form the Franke-Schenk art salon . After several changes of location in downtown Munich, the art salon has been located at Residenzstrasse 23 since 2010 . The Franke-Schenk Art Salon is a gallery that specializes in old masters and classic modernism . Rolf Schenk is on the board of the German Art Trade Association. V. active.

Artist

Artists of the Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk (selection):

literature

  • Rolf Schenk, Gallery Dr. Schenk (Zurich), historical and landscape pictures from five centuries, Kunstsalon Franke, 2002
  • The paintings of the Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk 1913 - 2013, 2 volumes, Munich 2013

Participation in art fairs

Franke-Schenk and its predecessors regularly participated in art fairs such as TEFAF , Munich Art Fair and Cologne Fine Art & Antiques .

Catalogs

  • centenary exhibition I.
  • Art Salon Franke-Schenk 100 years. 1 anniversary exhibition
  • Lorenz Spring play of colors
  • Rembrandt and Picasso: two great masters of graphics

Web links

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 27 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 38.4"  E