Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist and author.

Biography

Frankl was born in

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, and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages. Frankl exhibited her first artwork in

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at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an

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furniture designer and

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. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos and family background for a 2007 biography of her father.

Courtroom art and paintings

Her

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es, drawings and paintings from both

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and superior cases have aired on

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, WGN-TV and "Talk America" and have taken her to the

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. In 2008, Frankl was included in a feature story by photographer David Friedman about courtroom artists and their work outside of the courtroom. Frankl has authored a biography titled '' Lust for Justice'' about J.

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, a radical

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, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film '' True Believer'' starring

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and Robert Downey, Jr. was based. The book, which launched in San Francisco in November 2010, includes Frankl's original courtroom art done during Serra's trials. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' called the book a reflection "on the work of a larger-than-life persona." Her paintings were included in 2005 in a two-month-long Las Vegas Art Museum exhibit, titled "XV Santa Fe Artists." In October 2004, she was a featured artist, with her art on display, at the Las Vegas Fine Arts Salon, as part of the 2004 Las Vegas Book Festival.

Photography

Frankl has worked as a photojournalist for international magazines and has lived in both the U.S. and

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. Her work includes a cover photo on France's ''Réalités''. Also while overseas, she worked as a staff photographer for Gruner & Jahr's ''

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'' and ''Eltern'' magazines. The German '' GEO Magazine'' in the 1970s profiled Frankl's lifestyle in Californi
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and she was also featured in ''Sunset'' magazine. Her photos are also featured inside and on the cover of ''The Lost Dogs of Shoretown: A Koko the Canine Detective Mystery'' by Annie Mack about the coastal village of

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, where Frankl lived for nine years and from where she commuted to

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courthouses as a courtroom artist. Frankl also illustrated the 1993 book ''Animals... Our Return to Wholeness'' by Penelope Smith.

Mime

Frankl also has worked as a

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in the fields of magic and

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. Her association with

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as collaborator and

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spanned 30 years, resulting in a memoir ''Marcel & Me'', released in 2014. Her appearance doing mime and magic at

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in the late 1970s was featured on Italian television. In 2006, she completed the Bob Fitch Performance Workshop Theater Training for Magicians, held in Canada.

Personal life

She is the daughter of art deco furniture designer Paul T. Frankl, granddaughter of a land speculator in

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, and the mother of Nicolas Koenig, a creative director for

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s and interactive game design. Frankl lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Books

* ''Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra'', by Paulette Frankl, edited by Deke Castleman, foreword by

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''Lust for Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra'', released October 22, 2010
/ref> * ''Marcel & Me: A Memoir of Love, Lust, and Illusion'', by Paulette Frankl

References

External links

Paulette Frankl official site

''Lust for Justice'' official book site

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/19971016180338/http://www.monitor.net/monitor/rv/rv9b-evidence.html "Trail of Blood Detailed," September 1997, ''Albion Monitor,''
"Serra talks with Courtroom Artist Paulette Frankl before start of hearing," May 2002, ''Las Vegas Sun''

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20061013043428/http://www.vegasvalleybookfest.org/2004/press/opening_night.html Vegas Valley Book Festival
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