!!!Frank, Josef

b. Baden (Lower Austria), July 15, 1885, 
d. Stockholm (Sweden), Jan. 8, 1967, architect. 1914 founding member 
of the Oesterreichischer  Werkbund. 1910-1938 collaborated with O.  
Wlach, with whom he founded the home furnishing store "Haus und 
Garten" in 1925; 1919-1925 professor at the Vienna School of Arts and 
Crafts; 1934 emigrated to Sweden. F. was an exponent of a broad 
definition of and a critical, modern approach to architecture. In 
Austria his ideas were received by H.  Czech and J.  Spalt. Awarded 
the Austrian State Prize in 1965.

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Projects and works: designed furniture and fabrics; villas, council 
houses, urban planning projects. - Housing estate of the municipality 
of Vienna, Hoffingergasse, 1921 (with E. Faber); semi-detached house 
shown at the International Werkbund Exhibition in Stuttgart, 1927; 
Wenzgasse House in Vienna, 1929/30 (with O. Wlach); designed the 
development plan and supervised the construction of the Int. 
Werkbundsiedlung housing estate in Vienna and planned one of the 
houses, 1930-1932; several residential buildings for the municipality 
of Vienna (1924, 1928, 1931). - Writings: Architektur als Symbol, 
1931; numerous essays.

!Literature
J. Spalt and H. Czech, J. F. 1885-1967, 1981; J. Spalt, J. 
F., Moebel & Geraete & Theoretisches, 1981; M. Welzig, Die 
Internationalitaet des J. F., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1994; M. 
Bergquist and O. Michelsen, J. F., Architektur, 1995; M. Welzig, J. F. 
(1885-1967). Das architektonische Werk, 1998.



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