Biography
Frigyes Frank is a Hungarian painter. He was born in Budapest in 1890, the son of Albert Frank, a clerk, and Ilona Zilzer, into a Jewish family. From 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Ede Balló, Aladár Illés Edvi and Tivadar Zemplényi. Between 1911 and 1914, he was a student of Angelo Jank as a student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
From 1911 he exhibited his works at the Art Hall and the National Salon. In the last years of World War I, he worked on the front as a war painter. From the 1920s he was a member of the New Artists Association, the Benczúr Society, the Munkácsy Guild, the Artists Association and the Hungarian Portrait Painters' Society.
He participated in the OMIKE Art Action with three exhibitions. In 1920, in the 5th district of Budapest, he married Margit Frankel, known as Mimi, the daughter of Izidor Frankel and Netti Salzberger, who was also his frequent model. In 1925, he went on a study trip to Italy and lived in Paris in 1926–27. He spent the summers in Mártély between 1929 and 1936. His works are mostly portraits (several of which were of his wife), interiors, landscapes and cityscapes, and still lifes of flowers, whose restrained modernism and French lightness are still very popular today.
