Hans Frank, painter and printmaker, was born in Vienna, Austria on 13 May 1884 as an older brother to his twin, Leo. He studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) under Professor Anton von Kenner between 1902 and 1906. After a year of volunteer military service, he began his studies in 1907 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Franz Rumpler. At the close of his studies in 1911, his work was included in an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts and he received a one-year imperial state travel scholarship, which allowed him extensive travel and study throughout Europe.

Frank married Lena Laschitz in 1913 but the following year he was called to military service due to the outbreak of war. He was commissioned as an officer in Galicia and the Dolomites where he served as captain of the mountain artillery. Between 1917 and 1919, he was stationed in Brixlegg in the state of Tyrol. Sometime in late 1924 or early 1925 he moved his family, which now included two sons and a daughter, to Vienna.

Hans Frank exhibited with and was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour, and the Printmakers Society of California. His work was included in the exhibitions of the Secession Vienna in 1906, 1907, 1913, and 1941. Other exhibitions that included his work were the International Fine Arts Exhibition, Rome, 1911; the International Exhibition of Modern Graphic Arts, Florence 1927; National Gallery of Canada 1930; and from 1938 to 1944 the Great German Art Exhibition, House of German Art, Munich.

According to the German Art Gallery, Hans Frank was awarded the Golden State Medal in 1908, the Silver Medal of the City Graz, the Royal Sakson Medal for Art and Science, the Staatlicher Ehrenpreis, the Prize of the City Vienna in 1931, the Goldene Ehrenmedaille des Wiener Künstlerhauses in 1934, the Waldmüllerpreis für Malerei, and the Kriehuber-Preis der Stadt Wien in 1944. Hans Frank’s work is included in the Österreichischen Galerie, the Städtischen Sammlungen im Rathaus, the Albertina, and the Städtische Falerie Nüenberg.

Hans Frank died in Salzburg on 19 December 1948.