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Hannah Frank 1908-2008

Graphic artist, sculptor and poet Hannah Frank was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Glasgow, Scotland on 23 August 1908. From 1927 to 1930 she studied Latin and moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, also attending evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, and later briefly studying printmaking and wood engraving. She produced her trademark black-and-white drawings from the age of seventeen and between 1927 and 1932 the GUM (Glasgow University Magazine) rarely appeared without one of her drawings, signed 'Al Aaraaf', her chosen pen name (taken from Edgar Allen Poe). In the 1950s she took up sculpture, studying with Benno Schotz, and both her drawings and sculpture were exhibited in the Royal Glasgow Institute, the Royal Academy, and the Royal Scottish Academy, throughout her long career. She continued to produce sculpture until her early nineties, examples of which have been exhibited at the Scottish Parliament.

In 2002, aged 94, she moved with her husband, Lionel Levy, to a care home in Glasgow, where her drawings and sculpture

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Hannah Frank (1908–2008)

Glasgow Women's Library

Hannah Frank [also known as 'Al Aaraaf'] was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 23 August 1908 and was the daughter of Russian Jewish émigrés. She studied moral philosophy and Latin at the University of Glasgow from where she graduated in 1930. She also attended Jordanhill Teacher Training College in Glasgow, and, at various times, took evening classes at Glasgow School of Art. Between 1930 and 1939 she taught at schools in Glasgow In 1929 she was awarded the GSA Evening Class Prize for her drawing Sorcery, and in 1934, the James McBey Prize for wood engraving. The influence of the 'Spook' school of Glasgow artists, and, possibly Aubrey Beardsley, is evident in many of her drawings. Frank signed several of her early drawings ‘Al Aaraaf’.

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This is the title of a long poem by Edgar Allan Poe which had special significance for the young Hannah Frank. It was the name given by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to a mysterious star which
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Hannah Frank

British artist

Hannah Frank (23 August 1908 – 18 December 2008) was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland. She was known for her Art Nouveau monochrome drawings until she decided to concentrate on sculpture in 1952.

Background and education

Frank's Jewish parents both originated in Russia. Charles Fraiker, her father, came from Vilkomir in the Russian Pale of Settlement. After studying engineering at Leitz in Frankfurt, he immigrated to Scotland in 1905, and changed his name to Frank. Frank's mother was also born in Russia, as Miriam Lipctz. Having immigrated to Scotland, her family settled first in Edinburgh and then in Glasgow, where her parents ran a shop in Gorbals repairing cameras and optical devices.[1]

The Franks lived in Glasgow's Gorbals district, where there was a strong Jewish immigrant community, first in Abbotsford Road and later in South Portland Street. When Frank was 13, the family moved to 72 Dixon Avenue, in Crosshill.[1]

Frank attended Abbotsford Road Primary School followed by Strathbungo School and t

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