FRANK, HANS (1884-1948)

$2,250.00
$1,125.00
"Lake in Carinthia" (1924)
Original woodblock print
25.5 x 38cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Frank was a celebrated, award-winning Austrian Secessionist painter & printmaker. He trained at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Vienna Academy. He exhibited at the Vienna Secession in 1912 & 1913 in the footsteps of contemporaries, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. 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. He was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the London Society of Graver Printers, and the California Society of Printmakers. This incredible woodcut is very rare indeed.