Frederick Franck

FREDERICK FRANCK was a Dutch-American painter, sculptor, and author who wrote over 35 books on life, art, and transreligious thought, including his best-known work, The Zen of Seeing.

Franck was the only artist to record all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. His drawings and paintings entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Tokyo National Museum.

Trained as a dental surgeon, Franck worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa from 1958 to 1961. With his wife Claske, he created Pacem in Terris, a sculpture garden in Warwick, New York.

Franck was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on April 12, 1909, became a United States citizen in 1945, and died in Warwick, New York, in 2006.

Frederick Franck’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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