GERHART FRANKL* (Vienna 1901 - 1965 Vienna) Sculptor Beni Ferency etching/paper 24,1 x 16,1 cm ESTIMATE °€ 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 The Austrian artist Gerhart Frankl came from an assimilated Jewish Viennese family. His father, the lawyer Emil Frankl, was a lawyer and managing director of a bank. As a collector and patron, he particularly supported Anton Kolig, who later became the head of the Nötscher Circle. Her mother, Else (Elise) Frankl, née Kerner, was also culturally open-minded. Gerhart Frankl was baptised at the age of five. In 1919 he began studying chemistry at the Technical University, which he dropped out after one year. In the summer of 1920 he went to Nötsch in Carinthia's Gailtal for the first time as a painting student with Anton Kolig. With Bohdan Heřmanský and Johann Wolfgang Schaukal, Frankl was one of the first members of the workshop community that Kolig gathered around him. Frankl stayed in Nötsch several times until 1923. Frankl also went on study trips to North Africa, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, where he trained his painting skills on nature and on the models of old masters in the museums. Paul Cézanne had a lasting influence on his work. Working with Cézanne brought Frankl into contact with the art historian Fritz Novotny. A close friendship developed. In 1936, Gerhart Frankl married Christine Büringer, a niece of the Nötsch painter Sebastian Isepp. After the Anschluss, Gerhart and Christine Frankl fled to London in the summer of 1938. Frankl's parents stayed behind in Vienna and later died in a concentration camp. In London, Frankl tried to help Fritz Novotny and his colleague Otto Demus to leave the country safely. The art historian Otto Demus was able to escape to England in 1939, while Novotny decided to stay in Vienna. In England, Frankl gave drawing lessons at middle schools and took on commissions for picture restorations, while his painting work was completely dormant and he only worked as a graphic artist. After the end of the war, he resumed correspondence with Fritz Novotny and tried to obtain a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1947 Frankl came to Vienna with his wife, where he stayed for sixteen months with Novotny's support and created several paintings from the surroundings of Belvedere Palace, Novotny's workplace. Frankl was unable to find permanent employment in Vienna, so the Frankl couple moved again to England in January 1949, this time without the status of political refugees. In 1950 Gerhart Frankl received British citizenship. In 1961, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he was awarded the professional title "Professor" by the Austrian Federal President; The following year, Novotny organised a large personal exhibition of his friend at the Austrian Gallery. Finally, in June 1965, Gerhart Frankl was invited to Vienna to negotiate a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts and was billeted in a guest room in the Art History Museum, where he died unexpectedly. After initially focusing on his teacher Anton Kolig, Gerhart Frankl devoted himself to studying the old masters and, among other things, paraphrased Pictures by Peter Paul Rubens, Konrad Witz, Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä, and Jan Fyt. Paul Cézanne's painting became crucial for his further development, and Frankl's landscapes and still lifes of the 1920s and 1930s were influenced by their influence. In London, Frankl concentrated on landscape drawings. The images of the first post-war stay in Vienna reflect the city in a cubist to constructivist style. Around 1960, Frankl found a pastel-like, painterly image structure that pushes the limits of representation. His last group of works in 1964/65 is the picture cycle "In Memoriam", in which he deals with the horrors of the National Socialist concentration camps in drastic realism. 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