Frederick Franck

Frederick Franck (born April 12 1909 in Maastricht, The Netherlands – June 5, 2006 in Warwick, New York, U.S.) a painter, sculptor, and author of 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He was a native of The Netherlands and became a US citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade, and worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer [http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/teachers/teachers.php?id=285&g=0] . His sculptures are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as at Pacem in Terris, a small sculpture garden and park adjacent to his home in Warwick, NY.

Bibliography

*"Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius, with observations by the ancient Zen masters", (World Wisdom, 2005) ISBN 978-0941532709
*"The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and it's Contemporaries", (World Wisdom, 2004) ISBN 978-0941532594
*"What Matters: Spiritual Nourishment for Head and Heart", (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2004) ISBN 978-1594730139
*"Ode to the Human Face: Seeing/Molding the Human Face As Meditation", (Codhill Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1930337121
*"A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker", (Codhill Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1930337060
*"A Zen Book of Hours", (Codhill Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1930337138
*"Seeing Venice: An Eye in Love : An Inner Travelogue With 94 Drawings", (Codhill Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1930337046
*"What Does It Mean to Be Human?", (St. Martin's Griffin, 2001) ISBN 978-0312271015
*"Pacem in Terris: A Love Story", (Codhill Press, 2000) ISBN 978-1930337022
*"Fingers Pointing Toward the Sacred: A Twentieth Century Pilgrimage on the Eastern and Western Way", (Beacon Point Press, 1994) ISBN 978-1569070062
*"Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action", (Bantam Books, 1993) ISBN 978-0553371468
*"A Little Compendium on That Which Matters", (St Martins Press, 1993) ISBN 978-0312093273
*"To Be Human Against All Odds: On the Reptile Still Active in Our Brain (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture)", (Asian Humanities Pr, 1991) ISBN 978-0895819451
*"Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human", (Great River Books, 1989) ISBN 978-0915556199
*"Echoes from the Bottomless Well", (Vintage, 1985) ISBN 978-0394729954
*"Art As a Way: A Return to the Spiritual Roots", (Crossroad Publishing Company, 1981) ISBN 978-0824500764
*"The Awakened Eye", (Vintage, 1979) ISBN 978-0394740218
*"An encounter with Oomoto "The great origin": A faith rooted in the ancient mysticism and the traditional arts of Japan", (Cross Currents, 1975)
*"Christ Equals Buddha", (Wildwood Ho, 1974) ISBN 978-0704501300
*"Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation", (Vintage, 1973) ISBN 978-0394719689
*"Simenon's Paris", (Dial Press, 1970)
*"Exploding church;: From Catholicism to catholicism", (Delacorte Press, 1968)
*"My Eye is in Love: Revelations on the Act of Seeing by Drawing", (Macmillan, 1963)
*"African Sketchbok", (Peter Davies, 1962)
*"Days with Albert Schweitzer", (Peter Davies, 1959)

External links

* [http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/teachers/teachers.php?id=285&g=0 An overview about Frederick Frank and his work] from SpiritualityandPractice.com's "Remembering Spiritual Masters" Project.

* [http://www.herondance.org/Frederick_Franck_W20.cfm An interview with some excerpts from his writing.]

* [http://www.ru.nl/studentenkerk/kunst_en_religie/studentenkerk/frederick_frank/ over zijn werk en afbeeldingen van de kruisweg en het verhaal van de os] Studentenkerk Nijmegen