Wilfred Franks
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| Born | 1908 London, England |
| Died | 2003 (aged 94–95) Andalucia, Spain |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Bauhaus art school |
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Wilfred Franks (1908-2003) was a British artist who trained at the Staatliche Bauhochschule (de) in Weimar, Germany from 1929-1930. Franks also attended classes at the Bauhaus art school in Dessau, although he was not officially enrolled at the school.[1] On his return to England Franks worked with a mining community in the Village of Boosbeck in the northeast of England, teaching a group of unemployed miners how to design and make furniture.[2] It was through his involvement with Boosbeck that Franks got to know the composer Michael Tippett.[3] Franks and Michael Tippett were involved in an intense love affair during the 1930s,[4] and Tippett dedicated his String Quartet no.1 to Franks.[5] Wilf Franks was a Trotskyist political activist,[6] and on Sunday 4 October 1936, he was arrested (and later sentenced to 28 days hard labour) while helping to block a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF), during the The Battle of Cable Street.[7] In the late 1930s Franks became an actor, performing on numerous early BBC Television shows, including The Pilgrims Progress (1939) and The Insect Play (1939)[8] Franks became a designer at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham and later a lecturer in design at Leeds Polytechnic.[9]
References
- ↑ Powers, Alan (2019). Bauhuas Goes West. Modern Art And Design in Britain And America. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 184–186. ISBN 978-0-500-51992-9.
- ↑ "New Boosbeck Industries". visitmima.com. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ↑ Chase, Malcolm; Whyman, Mark (1991). Heartbreak Hill. A Response to Unemployment in East Cleveland in the 1930s. Cleveland County Council & Langbaurgh-on-Tees Borough Council. pp. 26–27. ISBN 0904784207.
- ↑ Gloag, Kenneth; Jones, Nicholas (2013). The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett. Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-1-107-02197-6.
- ↑ Soden, Oliver (2019). Michael Tippett The Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 176. ISBN 978 1 4746 0602 8.
- ↑ "100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus". World Socialist Website.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ↑ Soden, Oliver (2019). Michael Tippett The Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978 1 4746 0602 8.
- ↑ "Wilfred Franks imdb". IMDB. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ↑ Powers, Alan (2019). Bauhuas Goes West. Modern Art And Design in Britain And America. Thames & Hudson. p. 186. ISBN 978 0 500 51992 9.
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