Edvard Frank

Edvard Frank was the son of a pharmacist and is considered a painter of the “Lost Generation”. He began his training in 1926 at the Crafts and Applied Arts School in Trier followed by studies at the Werkschulen Köln (Cologne) and at the Academy in Berlin. Frank went to Rome for a study visit in 1934/35. After being drafted in 1941, he was discharged the following year due to an injury - possibly self-inflicted - and shirked war service again in 1945 by desertion. In 1944, part of his pre-war work was destroyed in a bombing raid.

After World War II, Frank first lived in Birkenfeld in the Hunsrück mountains. During this time he created numerous drawings and watercolors, but was reluctant to give them away. He became a member of the Palatinate Secession and the New Darmstadt Secession, as well as the German Artists’ Association.

Frank became known exhibiting throughout Germany and in South America. Since 1968, he lived again in the Saarland. Among his motifs were often erotic depictions, oriented on classicist motifs. In addition to mythological and Arcadian topics, his work includes mainly landscapes, especially from the Mediterranean region. In the 1960s, these landscapes became increasingly abstract. Frank’s legacy is in the state archive in Saarbrücken.

In 1952 in Helsinki, he exhibited Sports Field, Seven Nudes of Men from 1949, a watercolor in the format 48 x 62.5 cm. In the same year he also participated in the exhibition “Olympia in contemporary German art” in the St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt, possibly with the same work.