Elsa Fraenkel's interest in art began when she was a young girl.
13 Facts About Elsa Fraenkel
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Elsa Fraenkel received the support of her family in this endeavor and took drawing lessons in Brussels at age 16.
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Elsa Fraenkel attended History of Art lectures in Heidelberg University and studied at Karlsruhe Academy under Friedrich Fehr and Herman Foehri.
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Elsa Fraenkel began to sculpt mainly bronze life size busts of people and family members she would come across in her daily life and who struck her as being special in some way.
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Elsa Fraenkel exhibited her works in Hanover, Berlin, Brunswick and Mannheim.
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Elsa Fraenkel moved to Paris in 1933 and lived there till 1935.
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Elsa Fraenkel was influenced by the portraits of Despiau and by the Chaldean art in the Louvre.
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Elsa Fraenkel was a member and officer of the Essex Art Club, and exhibited at its shows.
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Until the end of World War II, Elsa Fraenkel was less prolific but she continued to sculpt a few individuals she would meet.
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Elsa Fraenkel's works have been on show at the Tel Aviv Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York and the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
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Elsa Fraenkel began to receive commissions to sculpt bronze and silver busts of well known people.
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Elsa Fraenkel had been part of Kurt Schwitters' circle in Hanover early in her career, and Erna Nonnenmacher graduated in ceramics from Berlin's prestigious Reimann Schule.
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Elsa Fraenkel moved to Bangalore, India to live with her daughter in 1969 and died there in 1975.