Paulette Frankl

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Paulette Frankl (born 25 February 1937) is an American courtroom artist and author.

Biography

Frankl was born in California and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages.

Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles, California, at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an Art Deco furniture designer and architect. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos, and family background for a 2007 biography of her father.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UJB1JhWhf70C&dq=%22paulette+frankl%22&pg=PR8 Acknowledgments, Paul T. Frankl and modern American design, by Christopher Long][http://www.sackheritagegroup.com/articles/articles.php?articleID=158 Milo Naeve Reviews: "Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022081806/http://www.sackheritagegroup.com/articles/articles.php?articleID=158 |date=2007-10-22 }}

Courtroom art and paintings

Her courtroom sketches, drawings and paintings from both federal and superior cases have aired on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WGN-TV and "Talk America" and have taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2008, Frankl was included in a feature story by photographer David Friedman about courtroom artists and their work outside the courtroom.[http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/03/the_other_art_of_courtroom_ske.html Iconic Sans, "The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists," March 4, 2008]

Frankl has authored a biography titled Lust for Justice about J. Tony Serra, a radical civil rights, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film True Believer starring James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. was based.[http://www.nwtrcc.org/mtap07/mtap0807.html#jail Jail interview of Tony Serra] The book, which launched in San Francisco in November 2010, includes Frankl's original courtroom art done during Serra's trials. The San Francisco Chronicle called the book a reflection "on the work of a larger-than-life persona."[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/18/NSP71GA50Q.DTL San Francisco Chronicle Profile, "Paulette Frankl: Author of Lust for Justice, Nov. 18, 2010][http://www.sfbg.com/pixel_vision/2010/11/19/lust-justice-tony-serra-style San Francisco Bay Guardian, "Lust for justice, Tony Serra style," Nov. 20, 2010]

Her paintings were included in 2005 in a two-month-long Las Vegas Art Museum exhibit titled "XV Santa Fe Artists."[http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Mar-18-Fri-2005/weekly/26044275.html Gallery review, "XV Santa Fe Artists," Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 18, 2005][http://www.lvcitylife.com/articles/2005/03/22/art_page/art.txt Art review, "Postmodern is so over: New Mexican artists move forward by looking back," Las Vegas City-Life, March 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130128125248/http://www.lvcitylife.com/articles/2005/03/22/art_page/art.txt |date=2013-01-28 }} In October 2004, she was a featured artist, with her art on display, at the Las Vegas Fine Arts Salon, as part of the 2004 Las Vegas Book Festival.[http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Oct-28-Thu-2004/living/25090871.html Featured artist, Las Vegas Fine Arts Salon]

Photography

Frankl has worked as a photojournalist for international magazines and has lived in the U.S. and Europe. Her work includes a cover photo on France's Réalités magazine. Also, while overseas, she worked as a staff photographer for Gruner & Jahr's Twen and Eltern magazines.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AGruner_%2B_Jahr?uselang=de Staff photographer, Gruner & Jahr] The German GEO Magazine in the 1970s profiled Frankl's lifestyle in California, and she was also featured in Sunset magazine. Her photos are also featured inside and on the cover of The Lost Dogs of Shoretown: A Koko the Canine Detective Mystery[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0741428571/ Photographer, The Lost Dogs of Shoretown, by Annie Mack] by Annie Mack about the coastal village of Bolinas, where Frankl lived for nine years and from where she commuted to San Francisco courthouses as a courtroom artist. Frankl also illustrated the 1993 book Animals... Our Return to Wholeness by Penelope Smith.[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Animals-Our-Return-to-Wholeness/Penelope-A-Smith/e/9780936552101/?itm=1 Illustrator, Animals... Our Return to Wholeness, by Penelope Smith]

Mime

Frankl also has worked as a performance artist in the fields of magic and pantomime.[http://www.magicalwisdom.com/quotes.php Magical Wisdom site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221181629/http://www.magicalwisdom.com/quotes.php |date=2007-02-21 }} Her association with Marcel Marceau as collaborator and muse spanned 30 years, resulting in a memoir Marcel & Me, released in 2014.{{cite news |url= http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-8323-mime-body-spirit.html|title=Mime, Body, Spirit Local author remembers silent love |work= sfreporter.com|publisher=Santa Fe Reporter|author=Limon, Enrique|date=March 12, 2014}} Her appearance doing mime and magic at Carnival of Venice in the late 1970s was featured on Italian television. In 2006, she completed the Bob Fitch Performance Workshop Theater Training for Magicians, held in Canada.[http://www.fitchmagic.com/bfwphoto.htm Participant, Theater Training for Magicians by coach Bob Fitch]

Personal life

She is the daughter of art deco furniture designer Paul T. Frankl,{{Cite web |url=http://www.antiquitiesweb.com/designers/paul-t-frankl |title=Antiquities Web |access-date=2008-09-14 |archive-date=2019-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804175829/http://www.antiquitiesweb.com/designers/paul-t-frankl |url-status=dead }} granddaughter of a land speculator in Vienna, Austria, and the mother of Nicolas Koenig,[http://www.nkadesign.net/bio/bios.html Nicholas Koenig Official site, Nicolas Koenig] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927235459/http://www.nkadesign.net/bio/bios.html |date=2007-09-27 }} a creative director for theme parks and interactive game design. Frankl lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Books

Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, by Paulette Frankl, edited by Deke Castleman, foreword by Gerry Spence[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0615386830 Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, released October 22, 2010]
Marcel & Me: A Memoir of Love, Lust, and Illusion, by Paulette Frankl