Frances Frakes Hansen
Frances Frakes Hansen was a creative visual artist. Frances Frakes Hansen was born in 1915. Artists Nina Baander-Kessler, Heinz Barbora, Fred Bertrand, Louis Goiffon, and Ernst Ebert are of the same generation.
Further Biographical Context for Frances Frakes Hansen
Born in 1915, Frances Frakes Hansen was predominantly influenced by the 1930s. On a global scale this period can be best characterised by the clash between the world’s foremost political philosophies - Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government needed urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret proposal to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty irreplaceable paintings by the Old Masters, many of which found their way to the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler.