Paulette Frankl (born 25 February 1937) is an American courtroom artist and author.
Paulette Frankl | |
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| Born | 25 February 1937 California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, author |
Biography
editFrankl was born in California and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages.
Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles, California, at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an Art Deco furniture designer and architect. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos, and family background for a 2007 biography of her father.[1][2]
Courtroom art and paintings
editHer courtroom sketches, drawings and paintings from both federal and superior cases have aired on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WGN-TV and "Talk America" and have taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2008, Frankl was included in a feature story by photographer David Friedman about courtroom artists and their work outside the courtroom.[3]
Frankl has authored a biography titled Lust for Justice about J. Tony Serra, a radical civil rights, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film True Believer starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. was based.[4] The book, which launched in San Francisco in November 2010, includes Frankl's original courtroom art done during Serra's trials. The San Francisco Chronicle called the book a reflection "on the work of a larger-than-life persona."[5][6]
Her paintings were included in 2005 in a two-month-long Las Vegas Art Museum exhibit titled "XV Santa Fe Artists."[7][8] In October 2004, she was a featured artist, with her art on display, at the Las Vegas Fine Arts Salon, as part of the 2004 Las Vegas Book Festival.[9]
Photography
editFrankl has worked as a photojournalist for international magazines and has lived in the U.S. and Europe. Her work includes a cover photo on France's Réalités magazine. Also, while overseas, she worked as a staff photographer for Gruner & Jahr's Twen and Eltern magazines.[10] The German GEO Magazine in the 1970s profiled Frankl's lifestyle in California, and she was also featured in Sunset magazine. Her photos are also featured inside and on the cover of The Lost Dogs of Shoretown: A Koko the Canine Detective Mystery[11] by Annie Mack about the coastal village of Bolinas, where Frankl lived for nine years and from where she commuted to San Francisco courthouses as a courtroom artist. Frankl also illustrated the 1993 book Animals... Our Return to Wholeness by Penelope Smith.[12]
Mime
editFrankl also has worked as a performance artist in the fields of magic and pantomime.[13] Her association with Marcel Marceau as collaborator and muse spanned 30 years, resulting in a memoir Marcel & Me, released in 2014.[14] Her appearance doing mime and magic at Carnival of Venice in the late 1970s was featured on Italian television. In 2006, she completed the Bob Fitch Performance Workshop Theater Training for Magicians, held in Canada.[15]
Personal life
editShe is the daughter of art deco furniture designer Paul T. Frankl,[16] granddaughter of a land speculator in Vienna, Austria, and the mother of Nicolas Koenig,[17] a creative director for theme parks and interactive game design. Frankl lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Books
edit- Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, by Paulette Frankl, edited by Deke Castleman, foreword by Gerry Spence[18]
- Marcel & Me: A Memoir of Love, Lust, and Illusion, by Paulette Frankl[14]
Further reading
edit- Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design, Long, Christopher, May 2007
References
edit- ^ Acknowledgments, Paul T. Frankl and modern American design, by Christopher Long
- ^ Milo Naeve Reviews: "Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design" Archived 2007-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Iconic Sans, "The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists," March 4, 2008
- ^ Jail interview of Tony Serra
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle Profile, "Paulette Frankl: Author of Lust for Justice, Nov. 18, 2010
- ^ San Francisco Bay Guardian, "Lust for justice, Tony Serra style," Nov. 20, 2010
- ^ Gallery review, "XV Santa Fe Artists," Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 18, 2005
- ^ Art review, "Postmodern is so over: New Mexican artists move forward by looking back," Las Vegas City-Life, March 2005 Archived 2013-01-28 at archive.today
- ^ Featured artist, Las Vegas Fine Arts Salon
- ^ Staff photographer, Gruner & Jahr
- ^ Photographer, The Lost Dogs of Shoretown, by Annie Mack
- ^ Illustrator, Animals... Our Return to Wholeness, by Penelope Smith
- ^ Magical Wisdom site Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Limon, Enrique (March 12, 2014). "Mime, Body, Spirit Local author remembers silent love". sfreporter.com. Santa Fe Reporter.
- ^ Participant, Theater Training for Magicians by coach Bob Fitch
- ^ "Antiquities Web". Archived from the original on 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ^ Nicholas Koenig Official site, Nicolas Koenig Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, released October 22, 2010