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1895 |
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Jean-Michel FRANK was born in Paris. He belonged to a wealthy Jewish family from Germany that had been living in France since 1880. |
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1904 |
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Completed his elementary and secondary studies at the Lycée Janson de Sailly. |
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1911 |
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Began to study law |
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1915 |
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Loses his two brothers during the First World War. Worried about his situation, his father commits a suicide. |
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1919 |
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Having been confined since, his mother dies. He inherits a small fortune which helps him enter the Parisian life. |
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1919 - 1925 |
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Jean-Michel FRANK travels through out the world, evolving in the artistic and social circles of that time. He befriends the Surrealists and specifically the “Group of six”. |
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1927 |
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He meets the Chilean Eugenia Errazuriz. |
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1930 |
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Jean-Michel FRANK contacts a Parisian interior decorator, Adolphe CHANAUX, a former student of Groult and Ruhlmann, for the interior decoration of his apartment on Rue de Verneuil. After that, Jean-Michel FRANK and Adolphe CHANAUX decide to become associate in 1931. They establish themselves in the old Groult studios, at “La Ruche”, Rue de Montaubaun. |
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1932 |
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Inauguration of this new collaboration and of the “Ligne Jean-Michel FRANK” with the opening of the Gallery Jean-Michel FRANK at 140 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. |
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1939 - 1940 |
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Jean-Michel FRANK leaves France for South America and the United States where he lives in New-York. Through the recognition of his clients and friends, Jean-Michel FRANK continues his activities and teaches at the New-York School of Fine and Applied Arts.In despair nevertheless over his condition as an émigré Jewish artist of German background, Jean-Michel FRANK fell to his death by throwing himself through the window of a New-York building in 1941. |
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