Frank Enders (1860 – June 1921) was an American painter and etcher.
Biography
Enders was born in Milwaukee, the son of a saloon owner in the city's German quarter. He was trained by Henry Vianden, and worked for him as a sign-painter. According to Hannah Heidi Levy's Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects Enders worked in the shop of Henry Baumgaertner. At age 19 Enders traveled to Munich, Germany where he studied from 1879 to 1884 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit, especially history painting, genre works and landscape painting. Back in Milwaukee, he founded a studio at 55 Oneida Street. Later he was director of the art gallery of exhibition building in Milwaukee.
Death
The death of Frank Enders was published in the Eau Claire Leader newspaper on July 1, 1921. The death notice is dated June 29 and stated that Ender "belonged to the original artists colony established in the '1990s'."
External links
Frank Enders, Museum of Wisconsin Art
References
19th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American painters
American etchers
Artists from Milwaukee
1860 births
1921 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
20th-century American printmakers
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American male artists
