Franz Holper
Austrian, 1862-1935
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Franz Holper was a German painter and architect.
Franz Holper was born in Meiningen as the son of a Bavarian civil servant. His talent for drawing and painting showed up early on. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and also took lessons in watercolor and oil painting. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Ratisbonia in 1882.
A tuberculosis disease forced him to give up his position as building officer for the city of Munich. In 1901 he moved with his family to Davos. Here he found an atmosphere corresponding to his artistic inclinations in the old Pfründhaus, today's museum of local history.
He exhibited his naturalistic landscape paintings in Davos, Chur, Zurich and other cities in Switzerland.
After the First World War, he first moved to Aßling in Upper Bavaria and later to Großkarolinenfeld near Rosenheim, where he died in 1935.