Biography
Hans Frank (b. Vienna, Austria 1884 – d. 1948) studied until 1911 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna with Professor Anton von Kenner and at the Akademie der Bildende Kunste with Professor Franz Rumpler. In 1911 and 1912 he travelled through Europe, visiting London, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Paris. From 1925 to 1930 he travelled again through Europe, staying in southern France, Italy and the Austrian countryside. Frank was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the London Society of Graver Printers and of the Pasadena Printmakers Society of California, USA. He was a landscape painter and printmaker; his woodcuts are primarily of birds. Hans Frank was awarded numerous prizes, including the Golden State Medal in 1908, the Silver Medal of the City Graz, the Royal Sakson Medal for Art and Science, the Staatlicher Ehrenpreis, the Prize of the City Vienna in 1931, the Goldene Ehrenmedaille des Wiener Künstlerhauses in 1934, the Waldmüllerpreis für Malerei, and the Kriehuber-Preis der Stadt Wien in 1944.
