Josef Frank (July 15, 1885, in Baden bei Wien – January 8, 1967, in Stockholm) was an Austrian-born architect, artist, and artist who adopted Swedish citizenship in the closing bisected of his life. Together with Oskar Strnad, he created the Vienna School of Architecture, and its abstraction of Modern houses, apartment and interiors.Josef Frank was of Jewish ancestry. His parents, Kaufmann Ignaz (Isak) Frank (October 17 1851 – January 27 1921 Vienna) and the Vienna-born Jenny (September 3 1861–10 February 1941 Vienna), were originally from Heves in Hungary. He designed his parents' grave in the old Jewish section of Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 19, Row 58, Grave No.52).[1] He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology. He then taught at the Vienna School of Arts from 1919 to 1925. He was a founding member of the Vienna Werkbund, initiator and leader of the 1932 project Werkbundsiedlung in Vienna. In 1933, he emigrated to Sweden, where he gained citizenship in 1939. He was the most prestigious designer in the Stockholm design company Svenskt Tenn (Swedish Pewter). He remained in Sweden after 1945 despite attempts to return him to Vienna.
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