Albert Joseph Franke (1860 - 1924) was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) and lived in Munich. He studied at the Breslau Academy before studying at the Munich Academy between 1880 and1890 under Otto Seitz, Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Lindenschmitt, Jr.

As part of his studies, he traveled widely in North Africa between 1885-1887. He painted several variations of Oriental scenes as well as Rocco interiors and exhibited at the Munich Glass Palace; he was also a member of the Munich Artists’ Cooperative.

Submitted by David H. Spear, retired antiques dealer

References

E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, vol. 4.

Karin Rhein, German Oriental Painting in the Second Half of the 19th Century (Berlin, 2003)

Started to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, he continued at the Academy in Munich, where - in the years 1880-1890 - he studied with Otto Seitz, Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Lindeschmita. In 1885 and 1887 he traveled to North Africa. At the beginning of the nineties the nineteenth century permanently settled in Munich.

He was a member of the Munich Artists Association (Künstler-Genosschenschaft) regularly exhibited in Glaspalast. His paintings at the exhibition also sent to Düsseldorf and Berlin. He painted primarily the interior scenes in the Rococo era, in the eighteenth century.

Albert Joseph Franke was born in 1860, in Buchwitz in Wroclaw. The artist studied at the Academies Breslau, and Munich (at Otto Seitz, Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit dJ). His artwork was featured in the Munich Glass Palace.