Friedrich Frank
Austrian veduta and watercolor painter
Friedrich Frank was an Austrian watercolorist and vedute painter. Frank studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After graduating, he founded a studio for theater painting in Vienna together with Hermann Burghart. From 1914 to 1918, he was deployed as a war painter on the Italian front. In 1930/1931, he undertook study trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1935, he was commissioned to decorate the Romanian pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. During the Second World War, he worked in his studio in Freilassing near Salzburg. A bomb hit destroyed many of his works there. Friedrich Frank was mainly concerned with veduta painting and also created landscapes. He also visited Italy on his study trips.
Artworks by this artist
- A view of Dürnstein monastery, the shipping pier in the foreground
- View from the Belvedere over Vienna
- Saint Charles’s church in Vienna
- An alley in the Grand Parterre, flower pots and part of a wall in Schönbrunn park
- A motif from the Salzburg country side 1917
- A view of the Viennese suburb Lichtenthal with Schubert church
- Vienna, Kärntnerstrasse, a view from the opera to Saint Stephen’s cathedral