FRANKE, Albert Joseph(1860 Buchwitz/Breslau – 1924 Munich)

Rococo Gathering of Gentlemen

Oil on wood. Signed lower right.

35 x 28.5 cm. framed : 48.5 x 42 cm (gilded stucco frame).

The men engaged in a discussion over a map in stately rooms.

German genre painter; studied at the Breslau Academy under Breuer, later at the Munich Academy under Seitz, Gabl, and W. von Lindenschmit. Study trips to Spain, Algeria, and Morocco; resided in Munich from the early 1890s onward. Member of the Artists’ Cooperative; beginning in 1900, he exhibited at the Munich Glaspalast and at exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Bibliography: Thieme/Becker.