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Paulette Frankl is an American

United States

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Courtroom sketch

A courtroom sketch is an artistic depiction of the proceedings in a court of law. To prevent distractions and preserve the privacy of those participating in court proceedings, cameras are not allowed in courtrooms in many jurisdictions...

and author.

Biography

Frankl was born in California

California

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, and attended Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where she majored in art and languages.

Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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

Paul T. Frankl

-Biography:Paul T. Frankl , an Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, painter and writer from Vienna, Austria, was the son of a wealthy real estate speculator. After Frankl completed his architectural studies at the Berlin Polytechnic, he traveled, spending time in Berlin and Copenhagen...

, an Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

furniture designer and architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

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

Courtroom art and paintings

Her courtroom sketch

Courtroom sketch

es, drawings and paintings from both federal

United States federal courts

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and superior cases have aired on CNN

CNN

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, NBC

NBC

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, ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, CBS

CBS

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, Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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, WGN-TV

WGN-TV

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and "Talk America" and have taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court. 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. Tony Serra

Tony Serra

J. Tony Serra is an American civil rights lawyer, activist and tax resister from San Francisco.-Education:Serra received a bachelor's of art in philosophy from Stanford University and a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC-Berkeley.-Biography:...

, a radical civil rights

Civil rights

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, criminal defense attorney and tax resister, about whom the 1989 film True Believer
True believer
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starring James Woods

James Woods

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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

Las Vegas Art Museum

The Las Vegas Art Museum was a facility located Las Vegas, Nevada in a building shared with the Sahara West Library branch of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District....

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 Europe

Europe

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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 Twen and Eltern magazines. The German GEO Magazine
GEO (magazine)
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in the 1970s profiled Frankl's lifestyle in California GEO Magazine profile, 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 Bolinas, where Frankl lived for nine years and from where she commuted to San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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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 performance artist in the fields of magic and pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

. Her association with Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.-Early years:...

as collaborator and muse

Muse

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spanned 30 years. Her appearance doing mime and magic at Carnival of Venice

Carnival of Venice

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts 40 days before easter and ends on Shrove Tuesday , the day before Ash Wednesday.-History:...

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 Vienna, Austria, and the mother of Nicolas Koenig, a creative director for theme parks and interactive game design. Frankl lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

Book

LUST FOR JUSTICE: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra, by Paulette Frankl, edited by Deke Castleman, foreword by Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence is a trial lawyer in the United States. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence states that he "has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney...