Josef Frank (born in Baden bei Wien on July 15, 1885 and died in Stockholm on January 8, 1967) He is a Designer Contemporary / Swedish Austrian of Jewish descent. He worked with Oskar Strand and related to the Vienna Circle. In 1933 he moved to Sweden, where he worked for the company's design and produced Svenskt Tenn design that produces a lot of work until he died. In 1965 he won the Grand Prize of the Austrian State for contemporary design.Architects, designers, and the theory of Josef Frank was known throughout Europe in 1920 as one of the continent's leading modernists. However, despite the important contribution to the development of modernism, especially in the field of contemporary design, Frank has been largely marginalized from history.
While studying in Vienna, Josef Frank became the leader of the young generation of architects after the First World War. It was Josef Frank became an extreme critic of modern architecture and contemporary design in the early 1930s.
Ignoring the demands of modern lifestyle that is united, Frank insists that it is pluralism, not uniformity, the most distinguished living at a time of new machines. He was able to put these ideas in everyday life.
In 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna to Sweden. Josef Frank's work in Sweden with a modern design style in the World Architecture. For more than thirty years he was the main designer for the furniture company Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm, produces colorful design, conveniently, and exotic that provides a refreshing alternative
