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ADOLF FRANKL
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1903 |
Born February 12th in then Pressburg/Pozsony,
Austrian--Hungarian Monarchy, now Bratislava, Slovak Republic |
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1909-19 |
Attends elementary and secondary schools and
graduates at high school |
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1920 |
Enrolls at the School of Arts and Crafts under
prof. František Reichentál and under prof. Gustáv Mallý in Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia; For several semesters student at the Technical University in
Brno, Czechoslovakia; Works on a part-time base as an advertising posters
artist and caricaturist |
| 1921 |
Joins father’s interior decoration and upholsterer
accessories company |
| 1933 |
Marries in Bratislava Renée Nachmias |
| 1934 |
Birth of son Thomas |
| 1936 |
Birth of daughter Erika |
| 1937 |
Establishes his own interior decoration company |
| 1939 |
After the proclamation of the Slovak State,
onset of discriminatory acts against, and persecutions of, the Jewish
population in Slovakia |
| 1940-41 |
Expropriation (Aryanization) of the firm, based on the laws of the fascist
Slovak State. |
| 1941 |
Jews forced by decree to wear the Yellow Star of David |
| 1944 |
September 28th: arrested in Bratislava with his
entire family
September 29th: deported to the Sereď concentration camp in Slovakia
3rd–4th November: deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp,
then
Deutsches Reich, now Poland
Tattooed with the number B 14395 |
| 1945 |
January 18th: evacuation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Death-March in direction Gleiwitz, then Deutsches Reich, now Gliwice, Poland
Survived in the typhoid barrack of the concentration camp Althammer, an
external camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, then Deutsches Reich, now Stará Kuźnia,
Poland,
January 27th: liberated by the Red Army in Althammer/Stará Kuźnia
End of April: Returns to Bratislava
Start of the cycle "Visions of the Inferno – Art Against Oblivion" |
| 1946 |
Re-establishes his company |
| 1947 |
Birth of son Ján |
| 1948 |
Nationalization of his re-established company by the
Communist regime |
| 1949-50 |
Emigrates with his family to Vienna, Austria
Resides in Vienna, New York and, since the Sixties, in Germany |
| 1983 |
Dies August 18th
in Vienna, Austria |
Prior the cycle "Visions of the Inferno – Art Against
Oblivion", innumerable drawings, aquarelles and caricatures came into
existence between 1930 and 1982. They show scenes from the Jewish life,
coffee–houses, railway stations, courtrooms and from the "Dorotheum", the
famous auction house in Vienna.
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