Hans Ulrich Franck

Hans Ulrich Franck ( * 1590/95 in Kaufbeuren; † autumn 1675 in Augsburg ) was a German painter, draftsman and etcher.

Life

Franck likely to be born 1590-1595. The specified on the portrait engraving by G. Chr Kilian birth in 1603 can hardly be true, as Franck married after a Kaufbeurer Council Minutes Book ( Kaufbeuren, City Archives, B 4) in 1615 already. 1630 siginiert Franck on an altarpiece in Kaufbeuren / Oberbeuren as " Mahler and organist in Kaufbeuren ". As a widower with seven children moved Franck in 1637 to Augsburg, where he, despite repeated protests of the painters' guild as " guet Catholic champion " the civil rights acquired on 30 October in 1638 and lived there until his death in 1675.

His father was the Kaufbeurer painter, church wardens and city architect Daniel heritage, called Franckh, born in 1573, worked in 1603; his mother was Barbara Dieffstötterin, widowed Rembold.

His son Franz Friedrich Franck (1627-1687) was also a painter.

Work

In addition to lesser-known drawings and paintings Franck created in 1643 and from 1655 to 1656, the 25 etchings comprehensive impact horrors of the Thirty Years' War, the reputation of a " Grimmelshausenmuseum of Fine Art " won him. Through its artistic origin is not known. Stylistically, he is close to Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, to which he obviously personally was related, but he drew on April 29, 1655 as a guarantor of Schonfeld's Wedding in wedding official protocol. Even before Schön Feldt for 1643 occupied office to find reflections of his work with Franck. An education in Holland is not occupied, but puts a monogrammed and dated 1647 Plünderungsszene ( from Coll A. Schwarz, Stuttgart, 1931 in auction 321 as No. 138 in M. Lempertz, Cologne auctioned ) knowledge of Dutch painting in the style by Jacob Duck or Maerten Stoop close.