Philipp Franck

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Philipp Franck (born April 9, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 13, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German painter , graphic artist , drawing teacher and illustrator .

life and work

View of Limone on Lake Garda , watercolor, around 1920
Wannsee Garden , 1926

With the intercession of his father, Franck began training as an architect at the Frankfurt trade school. After the death of his father, Franck broke off this training and devoted himself to his passion, painting. At the age of 17 he came to the Städelsche Kunstinstitut and became a student of Heinrich Hasselhorst and Eduard Jakob von Steinle . During this time, under Steinle's guidance, Franck also began to illustrate romantic fairy tales .

In 1879 Franck went to Kronberg im Taunus and joined the local painters' colony . There he made friends with Anton Burger , with whom he also took private lessons until 1881. Franck had his own views on depicting nature and therefore went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . The painter Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann had advised him to do this . He stayed there until 1886 and took up residence in Benrath near Düsseldorf . Among other things, he was a student of Eduard Gebhardt and Eugen Dücker , in whose landscape class he stayed from 1882 to 1885. After the academic years came the wandering years. Franck first went to Würzburg to settle down as a painter. After disappointing years in Würzburg, he decided to move to Berlin, where he became one of the most important figures in the art world. After the November Association and the Künstler-Westclub, the Berlin Secession was founded in 1898 together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann .

In 1906 Franck and his family moved from Halensee to Wannsee. His intentions to establish an artist colony based on Kronberg's model failed. However, these surroundings and the Berlin area were important sources for his artistic activity. A large number of his works were created directly in the wild. Important and frequent motifs in his paintings and watercolors are, in addition to portraits and family portraits , the Wannsee and motifs from the Taunus.

In 1902 his first wife died. Two years later, in 1904, he married a student at the art school, Martha Kuhlo. Philipp Franck had four children.

In 1944, at the age of 83, Philipp Franck died in Berlin. His grave has been dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave since 2001 . He was the father of the chemist Hans Heinrich Franck and the architect Carl Ludwig Franck , the grandfather of the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger and the great-great-grandfather of the writer Julia Franck .

Educational activity

In 1892 Franck came as a teacher at the Royal Art School in Berlin , where he had passed his drawing teacher examination two years earlier. He spent the years leading up to his appointment as a drawing teacher at the Latina of the Francke Foundations in Halle / Saale. In 1898 Franck received the title of professor . In 1912 he took over the acting management of the art school for three years, which he then officially and properly transferred in 1915. As director of the Royal Art School, Franck acquired an excellent reputation as a teacher who, together with Ludwig Pallat, played a key role in shaping and advancing the reforms of art and drawing lessons in Prussia .

Memberships and honors

Berlin memorial plaque on Hohenzollernstrasse 7 in Berlin-Wannsee
Honorary grave in the old cemetery Wannsee

Exhibitions

Fonts

  • Rain letters with 50 pen drawings. Wohlgemuth & Lissner, Berlin 1920
  • From the Taunus to the Wannsee. Life memories. Westermann, Berlin 1920.
  • Drawing and art classes. Handbook of teaching in secondary schools for introduction and further training in individual presentations. Edited by Ludwig Pallat. Volume 10. Berlin 1928.
  • The creative child. , Otto Karl Stollberg Verlag, Berlin 1929.
  • A life for art. Rembrandt, Berlin 1944.

literature

  • Franck, Philipp . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1891, p. 320.
  • Bruno Kroll: Philipp Franck. In: Art for All. 57. 1941–1942, No. 2, November 1941, pp. 39–43 ( digitalisat Uni. Heidelberg ).
  • Werner Doede: The Berlin Secession - Berlin as the center of German art from the turn of the century to the First World War. Propylaeen, Berlin 1981, pp. 86-89.
  • Exhibition catalog of the Galerie Mutter Fourage : From Taunus to Wannsee - the painter Philipp Franck (1860–1944). Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-550-6 .
  • Wolfgang Immenhausen , Almut von Tresckow (ed.): Philipp Franck (1860–1944) - catalog raisonné of the paintings. Scientific collaboration Sabine Meister. Edition Galerie Mutter Fourage. Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-574-2 .
  • Robert Skwirblies: Franck, Philipp . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 78–80.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Franck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Franck, Philipp ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 30, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ broehan-museum.de: List of pictures for the Philipp Franck exhibition (accessed on August 3, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1944
Place of death Berlin