Alois Bergmann-Franken (1897 - 1965)

Alois Bergmann-Franken

Alois Bergmann-Franken was an academically trained German painter. In the 1930s he began to become known in the Franconian region through his artistic work in the churches. He mastered the fresco technique, encaustic painting, tempera painting and oil painting. By 1965, he had created over 40 depictions of the Way of the Cross in paintings and mosaics, many frescoes and mosaics in churches in Lower Franconia, oil paintings, watercolours, concrete glass windows, woodcuts and sculptures of the Madonna.