Alfred Frank

From 1906 to 1908 and from 1910 to 1912 he attended the evening school of the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trades and became a portrait and landscape painter, but also worked as a printmaker.

In 1928 Frank joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO), of which he became the Leipzig representative.

[2] After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Frank was dismissed from the adult education center and taken into protective custody until the autumn, then sentenced to a year in prison in 1934.

On July 19, 1944, Alfred Frank was arrested again, and sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 23.

[5]The Alfred-Frank-Oberschule in Hohburg and in Grimma, a polytechnic high school in Leipzig-Gohlis, as well as the Alfred-Frank-Schulen in Bad Düben, Rackwitz and in Leipzig are named after him.