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4 unusual facts about Alfred Frankenstein


Alfred Frankenstein

:Note that this Alfred Frankenstein is not the same Alfred Frankenstein who wrote the official state song of California, I Love You, California.

Noted for championing American art, (see, Actual Art) his most famous book is After The Hunt, a volume that examined the trompe-l'œil movement in late 19th century and early 20th-century American art, focussing on the painters William Harnett and John Frederick Peto.

John F. Peto

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

Karl Kasten

After viewing his colorful etchings of the 1950s, art critic Alfred Frankenstein observed that Kasten had "discovered a new softness, liquidity, and fluency of effect in the bitten plate and with this a new way of expressing the modern artist's preoccupation with space and movement."



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