Philipp Franck

Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860, Frankfurt am Main - 13 March 1944, Berlin) was a German Impressionist painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Biography With his father's support, and insistence, he began by studying architecture at the Frankfurt Business College. When his father died, he decided to pursue his true artistic interests. Accordingly, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the Städelschule, where he studied with Heinrich Hasselhorst and Eduard Jakob von Steinle. He focused on landscapes but, under Steinle's direction, also created illustrations for fairy tales.

In 1879, he moved to Kronberg im Taunus, where he joined the local artists' colony. While there, he befriended Anton Burger and took lessons with him until 1881. Franck, however, had his own strong opinions on the depiction of nature and went to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he had been recommended to Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann. Two years after her death he married one of his students; Martha Kuhlo (1875-1957). He had four children. From 1906, Franck lived with his family in Berlin-Wannsee. The scientist, , was a son from his first marriage. His son from his second marriage, Carl Ludwig Franck, became a noted architect.

The sculptor, Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915-2009) was a granddaughter. The writer Julia Franck is a great granddaughter.