Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860,

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...

- 13 March 1944,

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) was a German

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painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Biography

With his father's support, and insistence, he began by studying architecture at the Frankfurt Business College. When his father died, he decided to pursue his true artistic interests. Accordingly, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the

Städelschule The Städelschule (), Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual a ...

, where he studied with

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and

Eduard Jakob von Steinle Eduard von Steinle (2 July 1810 – 19 September 1886) was a historical painter and member of the Nazarene movement. Life He was born 2 July 1810 in Vienna. Steinle came successively under the influence of the painters Leopold Kupelwieser, ...

.Brief biography
@ Easy.db Archiv. He focused on landscapes but, under Steinle's direction, also created illustrations for fairy tales. In 1879, he moved to

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, where he joined the local artists' colony. While there, he befriended

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and took lessons with him until 1881. Franck, however, had his own strong opinions on the depiction of nature and went to the

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, where he had been recommended to

Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (9 September 1809, Frankfurt - 30 May 1885, Frankfurt) was a German illustrator, genre and landscape painter. He was also one of the co-founders of the Artists' Colony at Kronberg. Life He was the son of a garde ...

. He was there until 1886. He then began to travel, eventually settling in

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. After finding little success there, he moved to Berlin in 1892 and became a teacher at the Royal Art School. In 1898, he was awarded the title of Professor. That same year, he joined with

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and

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to help create the

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. In 1902, his first wife died and, two years later, he married one of his students. In 1906, Franck and his family moved to

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on the

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, where he attempted to establish an artists' colony modeled on the one in Kronberg, but was unsuccessful. He returned to Berlin and became Director of the

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in 1915. In 1928, he participated in the International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute. His book of reminiscences, ''Ein Leben für die Kunst'' (A Life for Art), was published shortly after his death.

Family

His first wife was Katharina Ernst (1866-1902). Two years after her death he married one of his students; Martha Kuhlo (1875-1957). He had four children. From 1906, Franck lived with his family in Berlin-

. The scientist, , was a son from his first marriage. His son from his second marriage, Carl Ludwig Franck, became a noted architect. The sculptor, Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915-2009) was a granddaughter. The writer

Julia Franck Julia Franck (born 1970, in East Berlin) is a German writer. Life Julia Franck, a twin, is the daughter of the actress Anna Katharina Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch. In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they sp ...

is a great granddaughter.

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Franck.
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