Günther Franke, son of the director of Agricultural and commercial bank, began his career after the end of the war in 1918 as a volunteer with the gallery owner Israel Ber Neumann on Kurfürstendamm.
B. Neumann and Günther Franke in Munich showed works by Georges Rouault as well as watercolors, hand drawings and lithographs by Alfred Kubin.
The gallery presented Josef Scharl in 1931, the painters Joseph Mader and Max Wendl in a group exhibition in 1932, and the sculptor Fritz Müller, from 1932 to 1938 pictures by Edgar Ende.
In 1947 the "lively Günther Franke Gallery" presented Willi Baumeister as a representative of the "avant-garde of German contemporary painting."
In 1949 Franke loaned the Perseus triptych and a self-portrait by Max Beckmann, doubter and reader from Barlach, pen drawings by Kubin, paintings by Scharl and Schrimpf and watercolors by Ernst Wilhelm Nay for the exhibition Kunstschaffen in Deutschland in the gallery of the Central Collecting Point.
"[7] In 2011, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, together with art historian Dr. Felix Billeter, launched a joint research project into the history of Gunther Franke.