Franklin Einspruch

Franklin Einspruch was born in Dallas, Texas. Einspruch completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Miami, where he studied with Walter Darby Bannard. Einspruch is a member of the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.[5]

Franklin Einspruch has been an artist in residence at the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, [6] the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation,[7] the Morris Graves Foundation,[1] and the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts.[8] The critic Don Wilkinson has described his work as "handsome expressionist painting, grounded in reality, yet veering toward the abstract."[9]

Einspruch is the author of hundreds of essays on art and culture, and his writing has appeared in many notable publications including The New Criterion,[10] The New York Sun,[11] The Miami New Times,[12] The Federalist,[2] Art Critical,[3] City Journal,[13] The Arts Fuse,[14] and Art in America.[15]

Einspruch's blog, Artblog.net, began in 2003 and is one of the longest-running blogs about visual art. [16] He edits the Walter Darby Bannard Archive[17] and edited a compilation of Bannard's art advice, Aphorisms for Artists.[18]

Some of Einspruch's essays (many of which are gathered at einsprach.com/writing-archive [19]) are radical right-wing polemics. For example, "Cultural Marxists Are Actually Pomofascists" [20] approvingly cites the work of the late German historian and philosopher Ernst Nolte, without mentioning Nolte's reputation as a Nazi sympathizer and apologist and controversial Holocaust revisionist.

Einspruch has been involved in comics poetry since the form emerged in the mid-2000s, when he began posting comics poems online at The Moon Fell On Me. [21] He edited and published the first anthology of comics poetry, Comics as Poetry, in 2012. [22] In 2018 he was chosen to be the Fulbright/Q21-MuseumsQuartier Artist-in-Residence for the 2018-19 award year. His project as a Fulbright scholar is to create a cycle of comics poems about Vienna, titled (and to be published at) Regarding Th.at.[23][24][25]